Rules of engagement: Relationships and socialisation practices in family discourse

This Special Issue brings together a collection of seven articles that aim to expand our understanding of relationship building and socialisation practices in family discourse with the key focus on the interactional accomplishment of “doing family.” Exploring video-recorded face-to-face, digitally-mediated and hybrid interactions, they examine a variety of family conversations – parent-child, sibling (brother-brother; sister-sister), married couples and in-laws – in different languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Russian, Spanish), including some code-switching. The Special Issue also illustrates the use of the key discourse analytic approaches to interactional data analysis, ranging from interactional pragmatics and interactional sociolinguistics to membership categorisation analysis and conversation analysis.