Talking the Dog: Framing Pets as Interactional Resources in Family Discourse

Tannen, Deborah

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“…Rather, nonhumans have been constructed as an object to which humans might refer, address, or use in other discursive ways, for instance by speaking through the animal (ventriloquizing, e.g. Tannen 2004). One reason for this could be the view, not uncommon in linguistics, that only humans possess and use language (e.g.…”

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Aspects of Repetition in Bonobo–Human Conversation: Creating Cohesion in a Conversation Between Species

Pedersen

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2008

Integr. psych. behav.

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Ape language research has primarily focused on specific isolated language features. In contrast, in research into human language, traditions such as conversational analysis and discourse analysis propose to study language as actual discourse. Consequently, repetitions are seen as accomplishing various discursive and pragmatic functions in human conversations, while in apes, repetitions are seen as rote imitations and as proof that apes do not exhibit language. Tools from discourse analysis are applied in this study to a conversation between a language-competent bonobo, Pan paniscus and a human. The hypothesis is that the bonobo may exhibit even larger linguistic competency in ordinary conversation than in controlled experimental settings. Despite her limited productive means, the bonobo Panbanisha competently engages in co-constructing the conversational turns. She uses shared knowledge and repetitions to achieve compliance with a request. This reveals a knowledge about socio-linguistic interactions which goes beyond the pure informational content of words.

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Aspects of Repetition in Bonobo–Human Conversation: Creating Cohesion in a Conversation Between Species

Pedersen

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2008

Integr. psych. behav.

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“…These diverse studies not only indicate the increasingly intimate place pets occupy in the modern family, but they also raise the question of what these human-pet relationships tell us about the contemporary family system and how this new family system that involves both human and nonhuman members is being reflected and constructed in discourse, including family stories. Tannen (2004), analyzing the same family as I do in this study, shows how by speaking through, to and for the family dogs, or "ventriloquizing" them, family members, parents especially, achieve various interactional goals: they soften criticism, diminish potential conflict and disagreement, evaluate their son's actions, and teach him family and social values. In other words, dogs are used as resources in family interaction.…”

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“…6 Through their discourse and actions, family members construct their dogs as family members. For instance, Clara and Jason often baby-talk to the dogs; Clara, as Tannen (2004) has shown, ventriloquizes them. The dogs have their own toys.…”

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“…1 More specifically, she looks at how one family constructs a shared political identity as Democrats. Tannen (2004) -analyzing how family members of the same family examined in Gordon (2007) talk to, for, or through pets -demonstrates that such talk not only serves as a resource for communicating between humans but also creates "the identity of the human-and-animal grouping as a family" (p. 411). In other words, pets are included as part of the family structure.…”

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All in the family

Tovares

2010

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In recent years, narrative analysis has experienced what can be identified as a small stories turn. Specifically, some researchers, especially Bamberg (2004, 2006), Georgakopoulou (2006, 2007), Bamberg and Georgakopoulou (2008), have argued that the analysis of small stories that have been previously overlooked in favor of large-scale autobiographical narratives presents a valuable contribution to our understanding of identity construction and display. This paper builds on and extends the discussion of small stories as sites for identity construction by demonstrating how various small stories — retellings, hypothetical narratives, near-narrative structures as well as short past-oriented narratives — all construct a coherent family identity that includes pets as members. While a number of previous studies considered narrative as a key site for exploring how family members construct social identities, they primarily focused on individual family members and centered their analyses on traditional past-oriented narratives often limiting their settings to dinner-table conversations or interviews. In contrast, this study, drawing on prior studies of discursive construction of a shared family identity (Gordon, 2007) and pets as family members (Tannen, 2004), demonstrates how a shared family identity that includes pets emerges in diverse small stories that are embedded in on-going conversations and occur in a variety of places: a car, a dining room, a living room. This paper also shows how small stories about pets simultaneously create a shared family identity that includes pets and situate this family within a larger social discourse, or Discourse (Gee, 1996, 1999), of treating pets as family members.

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“…Tannen (2004) reafirma la relación entre el discurso referido, o diálogo construido (en el caso de la ventriloquía) y el marco narrativo/conversacional:…”

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Pragmatic-rethorical resources for narratives of complaint in the social construction of identity from women displaced by political violence in Colombia

Núñez

2015

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. Recursos pragmático-retóricos de las narrativas de queja para la construcción social de la identidad de mujeres desplazadas por la violencia política en Colombia. Textos en Proceso, 1(2), pp. ResumenLas mujeres desplazadas por la violencia política en Colombia, no solo se enfrentan a este flagelo sino que además son expuestas a condiciones de precariedad y al estigma por las comunidades de 'acogida'. Esta investigación pretendeidentificar los correlatos retórico-pragmáticos de los procesos narrativos de construcciónidentitaria, y del enfoque de posicionamiento interaccional de Bamberg (1997) en el contexto de la entrevista de investigación. La muestra está conformada por 17 entrevistas semi-estructuradas conformadas como relatos de experiencias personales vividas a luego del proceso de desplazamiento forzado. Los principales resultados, extraídos de nuestro estudio, destacan el uso de 'narrativas de queja' (Günthner (2007) como uno de los recursos preferidos que las narradoras emplean para construir su identidad. En estos relatos, el amplio despliegue de recursos narrativos, pragmáticos, retóricos y evaluativos pareciesen estar en función del objetivo interaccional de producir el alineamiento del interlocutor. En las narrativas de queja los recursosmás frecuentes son el discurso directo, el uso de presente histórico y diversos recursos evaluativos. Las narrativas se constituyen en los principales territorios donde los co-conversadores buscan y encuentran formas para mitigar el 'problema interactivo' y conforman una imagen de sí mismos de formas que sean interactivamente útiles.Palabras clave: mujeres desplazadas por la violencia política, narrativas identitarias, teoría interaccional del posicionamiento, historias de queja, estrategias retóricas AbstractThe displaced women by the political violence in Colombia not only face this human rights abuse, but they are also exposed to a poverty-stricken and they suffer stigma from the 'reception' communities. This investigation trying to identify the rhetoric-discursive relations of the narrative processes of the identity construction, and the approach of interactional positioning in the conversational context of an interview research. This study is based on the onto-epistemological budgets and theoretical -methodological bases of the Social Discursive Psychology, and on the approach of interactional positioning of Bamberg (1997). The sample is shaped by 17 semi-structured interviews; these are ordered thematically as statements of personal, vivid experiences of the process of the political . Recursos pragmático-retóricos de las narrativas de queja para la construcción social de la identidad de mujeres desplazadas por la violencia política en Colombia. Textos en Proceso 1(2), pp. 237-258.

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Talking the Dog: Framing Pets as Interactional Resources in Family Discourse

Cited by 136 publications

References 7 publications

Aspects of Repetition in Bonobo–Human Conversation: Creating Cohesion in a Conversation Between Species

Aspects of Repetition in Bonobo–Human Conversation: Creating Cohesion in a Conversation Between Species

All in the family

Pragmatic-rethorical resources for narratives of complaint in the social construction of identity from women displaced by political violence in Colombia

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