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Children’s whining in family interaction
journal contribution
posted on 2017-11-22, 16:20 authored by Carly Butler, Derek EdwardsChildren’s whining is identified in extracts of video-recorded social interaction at home with siblings, parents and other family. “Whining” is primarily a vernacular category, but can be identified in terms of a set of phonetic features including pitch movement, loudness and nasality, and contrasted with crying. We focus on the uses and consequences of whining, in and for social interaction. Rather than identifying and attributing experiential causes or correlates of whining, we examine what children do with it, how it is occasioned, and how others, mostly parents, respond to it. Whining performs actions such as objecting to transgressions and thwarted goals, and making complaints. Parental reactions include one or more of: “stance inversion,” which is the adoption of a contrasting tone in next turn; formulations of the offending circumstances; orientations to remedying the problem; and rejection of the whine’s basis, including dispositional formulations of the child’s whining (e.g., being “grumpy”), and accounts for not complying with a called-for remedy. Data are in English.
History
Published in
Research on Language and Social InteractionVolume
51Issue
1Pages
52 - 66Citation
BUTLER, C.W. and EDWARDS, D., 2018. Children’s whining in family interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 51(1), pp. 52-66.Publisher
© Taylor & Francis (Routledge)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Research on Language and Social Interaction on 2 March 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08351813.2018.1413893.Acceptance date
2017-11-07Publication date
2018-03-02ISSN
0835-1813eISSN
1532-7973Publisher version
Language
- en