The family plays an important role in uniting people into
cooperative groups. Communication is crucial in family relations
and knowledge of appropriate discourse norms starts in the
family domaiin. This book focusses on talk in families: talk
between mothers and children, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law;
grandchildren and elderly grandparents, and talk among
adolescents within families. Based on detailed micro-analysis of
home-based interactions in Malaysia, Language Choices and
Discourse of Malaysian Families: Case Studies of Families in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia provides a qualitative analysis of
authentic talk between members of families and reveals how
through conversations, relationships are maintained and
strengthened. This book is for anyone interested in the
discourse of Malaysian families and is aimed especially at
students working on discourse analysis. It uses multiple
frameworks of analysis which include the Theory of
Accommodation, Second Language Acquisition, Speech Acts,
Communicative Strategies