Reasoning Talk at Chinese Families’ Dinner Table: Across Three Generations and Different Communicative Contexts

This study examines the feature of reasoning talk used by 37 Chinese families at the dinner table across three generations with the background of co-parenting and in consideration of different communicative contexts. Drawing upon Hasan’s semantic framework, reasons were mainly coded as logical or so...

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Autores principales:	Lifang Liu, Feiyi Zheng, Ling Sheng, Yijun Hao, Jiangbo Hu
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	reasoning talk three generations communicative contexts mealtime talk Chinese families Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:58dd9c8a17b94a718c35499cbb754b8b2021-12-02T06:09:19ZReasoning Talk at Chinese Families’ Dinner Table: Across Three Generations and Different Communicative Contexts1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.763625https://doaj.org/article/58dd9c8a17b94a718c35499cbb754b8b2021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.763625/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078This study examines the feature of reasoning talk used by 37 Chinese families at the dinner table across three generations with the background of co-parenting and in consideration of different communicative contexts. Drawing upon Hasan’s semantic framework, reasons were mainly coded as logical or social types. We categorize the communicative context of reasoning talk into contextualized (meal-related) and decontextualized topics. When the proportion of social reasoning was found slightly higher than that of logical reasoning, the families’ reasoning talk account for only 3.85% of the total language. Specifically, the count of mothers’ total reasoning talk was significantly above other family members, while there were no significant differences among the other participants. The effect of the communicative contexts on family members’ social reasoning was found. The reasoning talk grounded on local rules (family-made rules) and coercive power occurred significantly more frequently in contextualized than decontextualized context. A higher rate of local-rule grounded reasoning talk of all family members appeared in contextualized than decontextualized context, and this gap was particularly obvious among mothers. These findings reveal the significant role of mothers in family communications and confirm the pedagogical values of decontextualized communicative context for promoting children’s learning opportunities at the dinner table.Lifang LiuFeiyi ZhengLing ShengYijun HaoJiangbo HuFrontiers Media S.A.articlereasoning talkthree generationscommunicative contextsmealtime talkChinese familiesPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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description	This study examines the feature of reasoning talk used by 37 Chinese families at the dinner table across three generations with the background of co-parenting and in consideration of different communicative contexts. Drawing upon Hasan’s semantic framework, reasons were mainly coded as logical or social types. We categorize the communicative context of reasoning talk into contextualized (meal-related) and decontextualized topics. When the proportion of social reasoning was found slightly higher than that of logical reasoning, the families’ reasoning talk account for only 3.85% of the total language. Specifically, the count of mothers’ total reasoning talk was significantly above other family members, while there were no significant differences among the other participants. The effect of the communicative contexts on family members’ social reasoning was found. The reasoning talk grounded on local rules (family-made rules) and coercive power occurred significantly more frequently in contextualized than decontextualized context. A higher rate of local-rule grounded reasoning talk of all family members appeared in contextualized than decontextualized context, and this gap was particularly obvious among mothers. These findings reveal the significant role of mothers in family communications and confirm the pedagogical values of decontextualized communicative context for promoting children’s learning opportunities at the dinner table.
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title	Reasoning Talk at Chinese Families’ Dinner Table: Across Three Generations and Different Communicative Contexts
title_short	Reasoning Talk at Chinese Families’ Dinner Table: Across Three Generations and Different Communicative Contexts
title_full	Reasoning Talk at Chinese Families’ Dinner Table: Across Three Generations and Different Communicative Contexts
title_fullStr	Reasoning Talk at Chinese Families’ Dinner Table: Across Three Generations and Different Communicative Contexts
title_full_unstemmed	Reasoning Talk at Chinese Families’ Dinner Table: Across Three Generations and Different Communicative Contexts
title_sort	reasoning talk at chinese families’ dinner table: across three generations and different communicative contexts
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
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Reasoning Talk at Chinese Families’ Dinner Table: Across Three Generations and Different Communicative Contexts

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