“Está difícil” [“It’s difficult”]: Accounting practices and the surfacing of relational expectations in transnational family talk
Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk
Published online on January 10, 2026
Abstract
Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This paper explores how accounting practices involving holding-self-accountable and holding-other-accountable foreground tacit relational expectations contingent upon the affordances and constraints of “doing-family-at-a-distance.” Drawing on ...
This paper explores how accounting practices involving holding-self-accountable and holding-other-accountable foreground tacit relational expectations contingent upon the affordances and constraints of “doing-family-at-a-distance.” Drawing on ...