TY - JOUR
T1 - Micro-moments of social support
T2 - Self-service-occasioned offers at the family dinner table
AU - Mandelbaum, Jenny
AU - deSouza, Darcey
AU - Wei, Wan
AU - Zhan, Kaicheng
N1 - Funding Information:
Early versions of this paper were presented at the Intersubjectivity in Action conference, Helsinki, Finland, May, 2017; the International Pragmatics Association Conference, Belfast, June, 2017; and the National Communication Association annual convention, Dallas, TX, November 2017. The authors are grateful for Paul Drew, Doug Maynard and other audience members’ suggestions at those conferences, and especially to Gene Lerner, Galina Bolden, and three anonymous reviewers and the editor of this journal for their very helpful suggestions.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Extending work on the everyday communication practices through which relationships are constituted, we examined the micro–moments of food service and the provision of social support in field recordings of everyday family life. We found that frequently when communicators serve themselves an item at the dinner table they offer that item to others, even when there is no indication that the other needs it. We revealed specific communication practices through which social support is implemented when offering food to others during self–service, indicating that in delivering tangible social support one may also provide emotional social support. Additionally, we showed that precisely where the offer is produced during self–service further impacts the relational implications of this support.
AB - Extending work on the everyday communication practices through which relationships are constituted, we examined the micro–moments of food service and the provision of social support in field recordings of everyday family life. We found that frequently when communicators serve themselves an item at the dinner table they offer that item to others, even when there is no indication that the other needs it. We revealed specific communication practices through which social support is implemented when offering food to others during self–service, indicating that in delivering tangible social support one may also provide emotional social support. Additionally, we showed that precisely where the offer is produced during self–service further impacts the relational implications of this support.
KW - Social support
KW - constitutive approach
KW - conversation analysis
KW - family relationships
KW - offers
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U2 - 10.1080/03637751.2021.1985152
DO - 10.1080/03637751.2021.1985152
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85117329261
SN - 0363-7751
VL - 89
SP - 281
EP - 306
JO - Communication Monographs
JF - Communication Monographs
IS - 3
ER -