RT Book, Section T1 Inter-generational argumentation: Children’s account work during dinner conversations in Italy and Sweden A1 Aronsson, Karin A1 Arcidiacono, Francesco A1 Pauletto, Franco AB This chapter illuminates how accountability is a core aspect of the intergenerational argumentation by family members during social interaction at dinnertime. First, an introduction to the concepts of social accountability and language socialization will be provided. Some prior work has focused on mutual apprenticeship (Pontecorvo et al. 2001), but not much work has problematized how children deploy what we will call proto-accounts (laments, multiple repeats, want-statements) on the one hand, and varied verbal accounts, on the other, in relation to age class or prior language socialization experiences. Second, we will present our study on argumentation, exploring how children’s accounts work during family dinner conversations. Argumentative resources used by parents and children will be discussed in the final part of the chapter in terms of social accountability and the relevance that these strategies have as truly interactional accomplishments. PB Springer YR 2017 FD 2017 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96978 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96978 LA eng NO Pauletto, Franco, et al. «Inter-Generational Argumentation: Children’s Account Work During Dinner Conversations in Italy and Sweden». Interpersonal Argumentation in Educational and Professional Contexts, editado por Francesco Arcidiacono y Antonio Bova, Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59084-4_1. DS Docta Complutense RD 4 abr 2025