Regulatory comments as tools of family socialization: A comparison of Estonian, Swedish and Finnish mealtime interaction  

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Tulviste, Tiia ; MIZERA, UULE ; Geer, Boel De ; TRYGGVASON, MARJA-TERTTU

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language in Society (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 31 no. 5 (Nov. 2002), page 655–678.
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The present study’s aim is to pinpoint the characteristics of verbal social- ization in family interaction in five different sociocultural contexts. Fami- lies with early adolescent children (M 5 11.5 years) were compared with regard to regulatory comments issued during family mealtimes. Three mono- cultural groups consisted of 20 Estonian, 20 Swedish, and 20 Finnish fam- ilies living in their countries of origin; two bicultural and bilingual groups consisted of 20 Estonian and 20 Finnish families residing in Sweden. Reg- ulatory comments were defined as utterances aimed at influencing the con- versational partner to behave according to social and conversational rules. Contrary to expectations, cultural differences were not found in discussions dealing with table manners and conversational rules, but the number of com- ments on perceived violations of moral rules was much greater in the Swed- ish material. Swedish early adolescents commented significantly more than their Estonian and Finnish counterparts, indicating more asymmetrical com- munication in Estonian and Finnish families. (Family socialization, meal- time conversation, metapragmatic and metalinguistic comments, moral talk; Estonian, Finnish and Swedish cultural comparison.)*

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