Parental Coaxing in Action: A Conversation Analytic Approach to Understanding the Parent’s Pursuit of Compliance

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Abstract

This paper presents one method parents use to get their children to perform a specific course of action that has been so far resisted. The phenomenon investigated in this paper shows how parents use coaxing as an interactive resource for compliance. By understanding coaxing in parent-child interaction we may be able to identify why coaxing is particularly suited to parenting and how this may contribute to our larger understanding of parenting practices.

Author

• Heidi Kevoe, Rutgers University