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Constructing time and prioritizing activities in parent–child InteractionSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, USA This article analyzes the discourse that middle-class parents and their children use to prioritize their next possible actions and activities in planning the course of their day. The analysis starts by showing how the availability of time is socially constructed in face-to-face interaction and how planning for activities entails temporally ordering possible actions and activities. The analysis then considers two verbal practices for accomplishing the prioritizing of some actions and activities over others which are termed appending and prepending activities. The analyses suggest that interactions like these between parents and children are important for socializing children into time management and planning. Furthermore, the data exemplify the tensions that sometimes exist in families as parents and children negotiate time and assert their activity priorities and are indicative of the ‘time crunch’ that parents and children experience in managing competing activities in their everyday lives.
Key Words: parent–child interaction • request sequences • social time • socialization • time formulations
Discourse & Society, Vol. 18, No. 1,
75-91 (2007) This article has been cited by other articles:
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