Sinkeviciute2025
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Sinkeviciute2025 |
| Author(s) | Valeria Sinkeviciute |
| Title | The ‘parent’ category as an interactional resource in a sibling dispute over sharing |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, In press, Membership Categorization Analysis, Interactional pragmatics, Sibling disputes, Parent-child interaction, Parent category, Family talk, Sharing, Russian, Membership Categorisation Analysis |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
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| DOI | 10.1177/14614456251396402 |
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Abstract
Drawing on a combination of the analytical tools from interactional pragmatics and membership categorisation analysis, this paper explores a specific type of everyday family life – a sibling dispute, and how the ‘parent’ category is used as an interactional resource by parents and children during oppositional talk over sharing. The data comes from spontaneous video-recorded conversations in a Russian-speaking family living in Australia that includes two siblings, aged 2;10 and 5;7. The findings demonstrate how (1) children exploit the ‘parent’ category to mobilise support or denounce the other’s reportable transgression, and (2) parents intervene in the dispute and socialise children into sharing, gradually moving from suggestions and directives to a threat. This study contributes to our understanding of how sibling disputes unfold and how siblings construct their relationships.
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