Conflict Talk: Sociolinguistic Investigations of Arguments in Conversations.

Abstract

List of contributors Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction Allen D. Grimshaw Part II. The Studies: Learning to Argue: 2. Disputes in the peer culture of American and Italian nursery-school children William A. Corsaro and Thomas A. Rizzo 3. Serious and playful disputes: variation in conflict talk among female adolescents Donna Eder 4. Interstitial argument Charles Goodwin and Marjorie Harness Goodwin 5. The sequential organisation of closing verbal family conflict Samuel Vuchinich Part III. The Studies: How 'Grown-ups Do It': 6. Ideological themes in reports of interracial conflict Teresa Labov 7. Oracular reasoning in a psychiatric exam: the resolution of conflict in language Hugh Mehan 8. Rules versus relationships in small claims disputes John M. Conley and William M. O'Barr 9. The judge as third party in American trial-court conflict talk Susan U. Philips 10. Difference and dominance: how labour and management talk conflict Katherine O'Donnell 11. The management of a co-operative self during argument: the role of opinions and stories Deborah Schiffrin 12. Silence as conflict management in fiction and drama: Pinter's Betrayal and a short story, Great Wits Deborah Tannen Part IV. Conclusion: 13. Research on conflict talk: antecedents, resources, findings, directions Allen D. Grimshaw List of references Name Index Subject Index.