Children’s demands for parental action

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine L. Tam

Theory and research on parent–child interaction generally make a priori assumptions of asymmetry in authority between parent and child. Rather than investigating how children exercise autonomy by resisting parental authority, I examine their methods for exercising deontic authority in interaction with their parents. Using conversation analysis and drawing on Stevanovic and Peräkylä’s distinction between deontic status and stance, I analyse video-recorded naturally occurring interactions in which children issue demands to their parents, thus claiming a high deontic stance. Parents may choose to comply and reinforce the claim or not. Domains of deontic authority are (re)negotiated when children pursue compliance; though children can test the boundaries of their authority, parental responses reinforce them, reifying their own authority.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hansun Zhang Waring ◽  
Di Yu

Research on parent–child interaction has described how parents manage child compliance. Less attention has been paid to the resources leveraged by children in this tug-of-war. On the other hand, without any specific focus on children, scholars with an interest in discourse and emotion have begun systematic investigations of crying. Using the methodology of conversation analysis, we focus on a 5-minute crying episode from a video-recorded dinner event that involves a 3-year-old girl and her parents. In particular, we describe how crying is deftly deployed by the child to successfully renegotiate what has initially been pronounced a done deal.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-146
Author(s):  
Amelia Church

Pomerantz, A. & Heritage, J. (2012). Preference. In J. Sidnell & T. Stivers (eds), The handbook of conversation analysis (pp. 210–228). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118325001.ch11 Sacks, H. (1984). Notes on methodology. In M. Atkinson & J. Heritage (eds), Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis (pp. 21–27). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 744-745
Author(s):  
David C. Rowe

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