Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Chapter One: Introduction
  • 1. Language and power
  • 2. Investigating power in a close-knit group
  • 3. Latent and emergent networks
  • 4. Interventions as interruptions in discourse
  • 5. The structure of the book
  • 6. The data and the participants
  • 6.1 The data
  • 6.2 The participants
  • Chapter Two: Towards a dynamic model of discourse
  • 1. Introductory
  • 2. A modular approach to discourse structure
  • 2.1 The exchange structure
  • 2.2 Action structure
  • 2.3 Ideational structure
  • 2.4 The participation framework
  • 2.5 The information state2.6 Levels or modules?
  • 3. Turns and floors
  • 4. Turns as on-record “speakingsâ€?
  • 5. The floor as participation space in the discourse
  • 6. Topics
  • Chapter Three: Defining power
  • 1. Power as inherent to verbal interaction
  • 2. Self-image, status and dominance
  • 3. Definitions of power
  • 3.1 Power as the capacity to impose oneâ€?s will
  • 3.2 The consensual view of power
  • 3.3 Power as a commodity and power as a discursive force
  • 3.4 Power as the capacity to achieve oneâ€?s aims
  • 4. Defining the exercise of power
  • Chapter Four: Intervention as interruption in social science research1. Preliminary remarks
  • 2. Interruption as a theoretical term
  • 3. Interruptions as simultaneous speech
  • 4. Operationalising interruption as a variable in experimental research
  • 5. Conceptualising the term “interruptionâ€? within conversation analysis
  • 6. Taxonomies of interruption
  • 7. Interpretive criteria in evaluating interruptions
  • 8. Interruptions as face-threatening behaviour and the exercise of power
  • 9. A return to the “prudish viewâ€? of interruptions
  • 10. Interrupting as a reprehensible social activity: the lay interpretation11. Towards a definition of interruption
  • Chapter Five: Types of verbal intervention in family discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Turn-internal interventions
  • 2.1 Off-record minimal listener responses
  • 2.2 Turn-internal support and agreement
  • 2.3 Looking for space on the floor: the preemptive bid
  • 2.4 Responding and contradicting turninternally
  • 3. Apparent interventions due to lack of synchronisation
  • 4. Intervening without overlap: the “silent interruptionâ€?
  • 4.1 Petering out4.2 Cutting in
  • 5. Projecting turn-completion and intervening at tone unit boundaries
  • 6. Blatant interventions
  • 6.1 Blatant interventions of a negative kind
  • 6.2 Blatant interventions of a positive kind
  • Chapter Six: Latent and emergent networks
  • 1. Introductory remarks
  • 2. The concept of network in social science research
  • 3. Morphological and interactional features of a network
  • 3.1 Morphological features
  • 3.2 Interactional features
  • 4. Latent and emergent networks
  • 5. The development of an emergent network