Scenes of family life

Laforest, Marty

doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(02)00077-2

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“…Some specific strategies family members utilize to complain their spouse or siblings in Québec community are identified as follows: 1) allusion to an offensive act/behavior; 2) justification of discontent; 3) request that the complainee justify his or her act/behavior; 4) mentioning the offensive act; 5) requesting a change in behavior; 6) adverse criticism of the hearer (Laforest, 2002). In addition to these verbal strategies, non-verbal ones such as silence (Saunders, 1985;Tannen, 1990;Oduro-Frimpong, 2007, 2011 and violent visual signals (Lee, 2008) are also employed to make complaints and accusations.…”

Section: Previous Research On Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Concerning the ways to respond to these acts, various strategies are also indentified by researchers (Garcia, 1991;Bilmes, 1988;Kotthoff, 1993;Lee, 2008;Laforest, 2002;Dersley & Wootton, 2000), which are generally classified into five categories: 1) acceptance;…”

Section: Previous Research On Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Then in what ways will a criticism/response sequence develop into conflict talk of greater acrimony? It is agreed that an argument usually breaks out when the complainer rejects or ignores in the third position the complainee's response, or responds to it sarcastically (Laforest, 2002;Dersley & Wootton, 2000).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These studies present a clear picture of the linguistic resources and structural features of these acts. However, the underlying interpersonal issues have rarely been explored by researchers, except Boxer (2002) and Laforest (2002), to my knowledge. Boxer analyzes the variables conditioning the speech act of nagging and reveals that nagging occurs between intimates in most cases, if not exclusively, and often from women to men, which, in Boxer's opinion, is attributed to women's lower power in seeking men's compliance.…”

Section: Previous Research On Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Criticizing as a Measurement of the Power Relations within Chinese Working Couples

Xiao-li¹,

Wu²

2016

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This study inquires into Chinese working couples' (both the husband and the wife have a paid job) marital power relations manifested in their use of face-threatening utterances in family situations. A quantitative approach is adopted and the data come from 4 commonly-accepted "realistic" Chinese TV dramas committed to contemporary Chinese working couple's family life. First, we identify the strategies character couples utilize to criticize their spouse and also those they use to respond to spousal criticisms, and categorize them into different types according to their face-threatening intensity. Then the differences between husbands and wives in their use of these different types of strategies (in both making and responding to criticisms) are compared quantitatively. An analysis of these differences indicates that while no significant power differences are found in their ways to criticize their spouse, working wives demonstrate more power than working husbands in responding to the criticisms from their spouse. Overall, Chinese working wives have the same or even more marital power in conjugal relationship. This finding mirrors what has been proved in other research fields, that is, women's marital power has been generally enhanced since the foundation of New China in 1949. In addition, we also find that working husbands are more inclined to avoid the criticisms from their wife and thus the involvement into marital confrontation, which reflects and verifies traditional Chinese stereotypes and expectations on men that they should be more generous and tolerant than women.

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Section: Previous Research On Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Previous Research On Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Previous Research On Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Previous Research On Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Criticizing as a Measurement of the Power Relations within Chinese Working Couples

Xiao-li¹,

Wu²

2016

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“…Un « travail sur nous » constitue aussi un accomplissement pratique à maîtriser, constitué entre autres de la gestion de multiples climats aux déclinaisons projectives et introjectives (Barrère et Martucceli, 2009 : 206). Ces modalités d'interaction ont été captées par le biais de récits de conversations, mais une collecte de conversations de l'intimité « en direct » et « en présence » permettrait de voir de quelles manières s'articulent les tours de parole dans certaines discussions plus tendues (voir à cet effet Laforest, 2002). Finalement, il s'opère une réception des conversations sur et dans l'amour.…”

Section: La Réception Des Conversations En Amour Et Sur L'amour : Mesunclassified

Parler en amour et parler de l’amour

Labrecque-Lebeau

2014

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Une part significative de nos échanges et interactions quotidiennes est ménagée à la question de l’amour et des rapports amoureux. C’est en effet par l’interaction et la conversation quotidienne que l’on entre en relation, que l’on parle de notre relation, que l’on parle des situations des autres, etc. À l’aide d’une méthodologie novatrice, le débriefing conversationnel, nous avons eu l’occasion de nous pencher sur les thématiques prégnantes de la normativité et de l’individualité contemporaine présentes dans les récits de conversation de participants variés. Nous proposons de présenter nos résultats de recherche selon trois moments de l’interaction qui ressortent de notre terrain d’enquête : 1) Comment parle-t-on de l’amour ? 2) Comment parle-t-on en amour ? et finalement : 3) Comment reçoit-on ces conversations en amour et sur l’amour ? Nous aimerions ainsi mieux comprendre comment et de quelles manières les expériences de sociabilité contemporaines contribuent à construire les normes amoureuses.

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