Frontiers in Educational Research, 2023, 6(7); doi: 10.25236/FER.2023.060707.
Lin Zhixin1, Sun Xueqi2
1Business English, Jinan University, Shenzhen, China
2Music Communicationm, Communication University of China, Beijing, China
Conflicts are everywhere in social life, and when expressed in the form of language, they form discourse conflicts. Discourse conflict is a kind of linguistic behavior, which is the phenomenon of discourse non-cooperation that occurs in the process of language communication due to each person's personality, value orientation, and different views and attitudes towards someone or something. This article takes the family discourse conflicts in the American drama "Good Luck Charlie" as the expected source. From the perspective of sociolinguistics, it is more important for the American middle class in terms of face, power, gender, occupation and language factors in the intonation and lexicon. Analyzing the discourse conflicts of the nuclear family with children aims to summarize the basic characteristics and reasons of the family discourse conflicts. And the construction of gender, power and identity has a permeating effect in every kind of family conflict.
Family Conflict Talk; Gender; Identity; Linguistic factors; Power; Sociolinguistics; Social Factors
Lin Zhixin, Sun Xueqi. A Sociolinguistics Perspective on Family Conflict Talk—A Case Study of Good Luck Charlie. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 7: 37-42. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.060707.
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