Sibling sociality
Participation and apprenticeship across contexts
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/rcsi.28317Keywords:
sibling interaction, family interaction, embodied talk in interaction, monitoring, directivesAbstract
This paper examines the embodied language practices through which siblings in two middle-class Los Angeles families structure their participation while apprenticing younger siblings into routine household chores, self-care and during care-taking activities. Siblings make use of a range of directive forms (including requests as well as imperatives) and participant frameworks drawn from their family, peer group and school cultures. Families build accountable actors and family cultures through the ways they choose to choreograph and monitor routine activity in the household, using both hierarchical or more inclusive frameworks. Data are drawn from the video archive of UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives of Families.
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