%0 Journal Article
%A Aronsson, Karin
%A Galeano, Giorgia
%A Pauletto, Franco
%T Endearment and address terms in family life: Children's and parents’ requests in Italian and Swedish dinnertime interaction
%D 2018
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/97220
%X The focus of this study is on the use of endearment terms and affective markers (including other address terms, as well as nonverbalcalibration) in requests sequences in inter-generational interaction, expanding prior work on requests as social action. This studydocuments verbal and embodied practices in dinnertime talk (30 h of video) deployed by both parents and children in order to get thingsdone. The analyses show ways in which endearment terms were recurrently deployed in request sequences, marking both trouble andsocial intimacy. Moreover, the data show that endearment terms were exclusively deployed by the parents, but not by their children. Theadults and children drew on different repertoires of affective resources: the children deployed an array of nonverbal and nonvocal meansto display their affective stances. In addition, the parents resorted to endearment terms, nicknames and diminutives, as lexical devicesinvoking intimate bonds in a context where social solidarity might be at stake. Finally, while children's requests target an immediate actionconcerning food and food-related activities rooted in the here and now of the interaction, parental requests can be often analyzed asredressive actions, prompted by the child's (troublesome) behavior.
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