In: Procedia: social and behavioral sciences, 2011, vol. 30, p. 1385–1389
This study aims to analyze how family members engage themselves in resolving differences of opinion during everyday interactions. In particular, we focus on the argumentative strategies used by parents during dinner conversations at home with their children. Within a data corpus based on video-recordings of family dinnertime interactions, two different excerpts of argumentative discussions...
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In: Language in Society, 2009, vol. 38, no. 1, p. 137-138
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In: European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2010, vol. 25, no. 4, p. 449-472
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In: Studies in communications sciences, 2009, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 79-92
This paper investigates how to reconstruct and evaluate argumentation in the context of Italian family conversations. By means of a case study, we show how understanding context is essential for the analytical reconstruction of argumentation. Within conversations at dinnertime, we rely on insights from Conversation and Discourse Analysis in order to interpret context-bound communicative and...
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In: Actes de la recherche, 2017, no. 11, p. 103-119
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In: Discourse studies, 2013, vol. 15, no. 6, p. 713-734
Questions represent a crucial tool of interaction between parents and children from a very early age. This study aims to investigate which function – argumentative or explanatory – most characterizes Why-questions asked by children to their parents in a natural setting such as mealtimes at home. Why- questions asked by 13 children – eight girls and five boys aged between three and seven...
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In: Journal of community & applied social psychology, 2013, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 206-224
This paper is centred on family conversations and focuses on the conditions that allow a specific strategic maneuver, the invocation of the authority, to be an effective argumentative strategy when used by parents to convince their children to accept rules and prescriptions. Within a corpus of argumentative sequences selected from 30 video-recordings of family mealtime conversations, an...
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In: US-China education review, 2011, vol. 8, no. 3, p. 355-368
This paper investigates to what extent Swiss and Italian family members engage to resolve differences of opinion during their everyday conversations at home. The goal is to point out the importance of the context in the an alytical reconstruction of argumentation carried out by parents and children at dinnertime and to highlight the similarities and diferences among different strategies. By...
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In: Actes de la Recherche, 2014, no. 10, p. 11-25
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In: Actes de la Recherche, 2014, no. 10, p. 147-156
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