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The ‘parent’ category as an interactional resource in a sibling dispute over sharing

Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk

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Abstract

Discourse Studies, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 587-610, August 2026.
Drawing on a combination of the analytical tools from interactional pragmatics and membership categorisation analysis, this paper explores a specific type of everyday family life – a sibling dispute, and how the ‘parent’ category is used as an ...