Habits of the hearth: Children's bedtime routines as relational work

“But please can I play with the iPad?”: The development of request negotiation practices by a four-year-old child

“…Along the same lines, children also use the I want format to make a request in opposition to parents' imperatives while they use Can I in downgraded requests that display an orientation to the parents' interests (Wootton, 1981b). Older children (aged six to eleven) may also provide accounts to legitimize their non-compliance or employ bargaining maneuvers so that they comply with the directive only partially or on their own terms such as eating less food (Goodwin, 2006) or having more time (Goodwin, 2006;Sirota, 2006). Notably, in negotiated request sequences, participants' forms of participation and affective stances (e.g.…”

“…Goodwin, 2006). In line 11, he recycles the can I format but with a mid-turnconstruction-unit pause, audible breath, a sweet voice, and a bargaining maneuver that reduces the scope of the requested action to ''for a while'' (see also Goodwin, 2006;Sirota, 2006).…”

Getting and keeping Nora on board: A novice elementary ESOL student teacher's practices for lesson engagement

“…Discourse analytic research has tackled at least two contexts in which resistance figures prominently: (1) advising (e.g., Heritage and Sefi, 1992;Silverman, 1997;Velvilanen, 2009) and (2) interaction with children (e.g., Hutchby, 2002;Goodwin, 2007;Sirota, 2006). In advising contexts, such resistance is found not only in situations where advice is uninvited (Jefferson & Lee, 1992) but also in settings where advice is actively sought (Waring, 2005).…”

“…The analysis shows how the father manages to change a tense encounter into a joyful collaboration on the homework problems. With a focus on children's resistance to bedtime, Sirota (2006) shows that parents often engage in "continued negotiation through mitigation, indirectness, and counter-requests of their own" (p. 509). In their examination of family interactions around sports event, Kremer-Sadlik and Kim (2007) found that parents work with the child's inappropriate behavior (e.g., whining or being noncompetitive) by first signaling the inappropriateness of the behavior and then engaging in elaborate interactions to clarify why the behavior is inappropriate and to, "explain, expand, and illustrate.…”

Handling power-asymmetry in interactions with infants

“…This investigation draws on prior work on family-interactions, within the framework of language socialization and discursive psychology, that investigated parenting strategies that foster familial and cultural values such as autonomy, interdependence and responsibility and that draw on different forms of authoritativeness. Negotiating practices and egalitarian strategies were found for instance in middle class families in Los Angeles (Fasulo et al 2007;Sirota 2006) and Sweden (Aronsson & Cekaite 2011). Similarly, Hepburn & Potter (2011) analyzed the use of threats in British middle class family dinner interactions as a means of co-constructing social influence on children.…”