A candle to blow out: An analysis of first birthday family celebrations

Rancew-Sikora, Dorota; Remisiewicz, Łukasz

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2019.12.008

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“…In this section we consider how participation and intersubjectivity afford resources to homestay guests with respect to new or different participatory practices. We analyse how the visitor’s emerging comprehension is brought to bear on not just linguistic elements, but the way an utterance is to be understood within a given socio-temporal context and its connection to the family/cultural practices of birthday rituals (Rancew-Sikora and Remisiewicz, 2020). In particular we examine how Shin initially treats the host’s situated use of the phrase ‘make a wish’ as problematic and the consequences that has for the unfurling interaction.…”

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The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership

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2021

Second Language Research

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Study abroad homestays are generally assumed to provide visitors with opportunities to learn language ‘in the wild’ by participating in the host family’s everyday life. Ultimately such participation is accomplished via individual episodes of interaction as the visitor is socialized into the family’s mundane routines and rituals. Building on research into second language interaction in the lifeworlds of learners beyond the classroom, this study considers (1) how interactants in one homestay context draw on a range of ecologically available resources to co-accomplish participation and membership, and (2) how such participation affords the guest with an expanding repertoire of resources, including linguistic elements and new participatory practices. The study uses multimodal conversation analysis (CA) to discuss two extended extracts from naturally occurring interaction collected between a novice L2 English speaker and his homestay family. The analysis suggests that language learning is more complex than the mere provision of linguistic input: new lexical items and practices emerge within the interactants’ respective lifeworlds in relation to locally situated contingencies, and can be occasioned and explained via recourse to a range of material and embodied affordances beyond just language. Input, therefore, is sequentially and ecologically located in the broader business of an ongoing collective sociality and primarily serves the two key interactional imperatives of progressivity and intersubjectivity.

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The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership

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2021

Second Language Research

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“…Rather, it was being made important in the ongoing interaction by the participants who engaged in a collaborative effort of requesting, instructing, demonstrating, mobilizing, and helping the child to undertake this task. In our material some families did not engage in such an interaction at all while others did that with quite a lot effort (Rancew-Sikora and Remisiewicz, 2020).…”

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“…The task of the birthday main actor is to blow out the candle on the birthday cake. When it comes to the one-year-old child whose first birthday is being celebrated, this is not an easy achievement (Rancew-Sikora and Remisiewicz, 2020). Generally, toddlers’ participation modes in a collective interaction is different than adults.…”

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“…Filipi (2009: 67–70) points out what gimmicks parents use to manage this task (see also Cekaite, 2016; Ferguson, 1964). In the context of a birthday, the participation of small children is highly differentiated among families and it is shaped by expectations and initiatives of the adults (Rancew-Sikora and Remisiewicz, 2020).…”

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A study of applause in family ritual

Remisiewicz

Rancew-Sikora

2022

Discourse Studies

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With reference to the previous empirical works on applause, we explore the roles it plays during the first birthday celebration using multimodal analysis. Particularly, we focus on modes of its initiation and collaborative enactment. The empirical material includes 25 videos from different Polish families. The analysis demonstrates that applause works in interaction (1) as a ritual anchor that allows the participants to move to either the end or the next sequence of the ritual, (2) as an appreciative assessment of the previous action, (3) as a device for focusing joint attention, which coordinates the interaction of participants and (re)focuses the attention on the most important actor/recipient of the ritual.

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“…They are imbued with special meaning and commemorate, honor, and celebrate important occasions during the year and life course (Fiese et al, 2002;Imber-Black & Roberts, 1998;Wolin & Bennett, 1984). Organizing and partaking in them serve multiple purposes, like allowing attendees to engage in emotional exchange, maintaining contact with family members, or showing that one cares about someone (Baxter & Braithwaite, 2006;Fiese et al, 2002;Rancew-Sikora & Remisiewicz, 2020). From a sociological perspective, family rituals -and family practices and routines in a wider sense -unveil the intricacies of and diverging loyalties in families by showing how family is "done" (Baxter & Braithwaite, 2006;Fiese et al, 2002;Morgan, 1999Morgan, , 2011b and may even define and reify family boundaries (e.g., Allan et al, 2011, pp.…”

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Family rituals in postdivorce families: The role of family structure and relationship quality for parents' and stepparents' attendance at children's birthdays

Fang

Poortman

Lippe

2022

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Objective: To investigate if divorced parents celebrate their children's birthdays with their respective ex-partner and current partner, and whether they do so "jointly" with both. Background: Family rituals like birthday celebrations are important and meaningful events in people's lives, but little is known about who partakes in these in contemporary postdivorce families. Method: We assessed whether divorced parents celebrated their child's birthday together with their ex-partner (i.e., the child’s other biological parent), current partner (i.e., the child’s stepparent), and jointly with both. Dutch Data (N=2,451) was analyzed using linear probability models. Results: Most parents celebrated the child's birthday without the ex-partner, but with the current partner. One quarter celebrated with both. The ex-partners' presence was more likely when parents' and their current partners' relationship with the ex-partner was good; and less likely when parents had repartnered and when the ex-partners had sole custody or additional biological or stepchildren. The presence of the current partner was more likely in case of coresidence with the biological parent and when the ex-partner had a new partner; and less likely when the ex-partners had sole custody and when parents’ relationship with the ex-partners was good. Conclusion: Child-related family rituals mostly involve the "new" stepparent rather than both biological parents. The effects of relationship quality, co-residence, repartnering, and having additional biological or stepchildren highlight the importance of (step)parents' willingness to interact with each other, structural opportunities for parent-child interactions, and parents’ shifting loyalties from their ex-partner to their new family.

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A candle to blow out: An analysis of first birthday family celebrations

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership

The interactional ecology of homestay experiences: Locating input within participation and membership

A study of applause in family ritual

Family rituals in postdivorce families: The role of family structure and relationship quality for parents' and stepparents' attendance at children's birthdays

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