A husband echoes back words that his wife said to him hours before
as a way of teasing her. A parent always uses a particular word
when instructing her child not to talk during naptime. A mother and
family friend repeat each other's instructions as they supervise a
child at a shopping mall. Our everyday conversations necessarily
are made up of "old" elements of language-words, phrases,
paralinguistic features, syntactic structures, speech acts, and
stories-that have been used before, which we recontextualize and
reshape in new and creative ways.
In Making Meanings, Creating Family, Cynthia Gordon integrates
theories of intertextuality and framing in order to explore how and
why family members repeat one another's words in everyday talk, as
well as the interactive effects of those repetitions. Analyzing the
discourse of three dual-income American families who recorded their
own conversations over the course of one week, Gordon demonstrates
how repetition serves as a crucial means of creating the complex,
shared meanings that give each family its distinctive identity.
Making Meanings, Creating Family takes an interactional
sociolinguistic approach, drawing on theories from linguistics,
communication, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Its
presentation and analysis of transcribed family encounters will be
of interest to scholars and students of communication studies,
discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and
psychology-especially those interested in family discourse. Its
engagement with intertextuality as theory and methodology will
appeal to researchers in media, literary, and cultural studies.
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