Abstract
Abstract This chapter uses a Bakhtinian dialogic approach to demonstrate how families socialize children in interactions prompted by television programs. It explores the relationship between the public and the private in family discourse by examining how family members linguistically engage with each other as they watch television. Family members negotiate and maintain their family's values, beliefs, and identities by repeating words and phrases from television programs. By combining the concept of repetition as a discourse feature with Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogicality and Julia Kristeva's intertextuality, this chapter argues that the public and private interpenetrate within interactions in which family members repeat television texts. She demonstrates that family members do not passively repeat words and phrases from television texts but create a “dialogic unity”—a complex combination of public and private that is saturated with previous and new meanings. This type of family talk both reflects and transforms the lives of the viewers and links family members with the world that lies outside their circle of family and friends.
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