Parenthesis

Abstract: Prologue Acknowledgments Introduction Different Times, Different Places: Meanings of Family and Home Before the Modern Age Myths of Family Past At Home with Families of Strangers Life and Death in a Small Parenthesis Enchanting Families: The Victorian Origins of Modern Family Cultures A World of Their Own Making Making Time(s) for Family No Place Like Home Mythic Figures in the Suburban Landscape The Perfect Couple Mothers Giving Birth to Motherhood Bringing Up Fathers: Strangers in Our Midst Haunting the Dead New Times and New Places: Myths and Rituals for a Global Era Conclusion: Remaking Our Worlds Notes Index

Abstract: A decision procedure is given which determines whether the languages defined by two parenthesis grammars are equal.

Abstract: Rhetoric is the master-word for this reply to a reply and my main point is simply that like it or not we live in a rhetorical world. This is a conclusion that is inevitable once we remove literal meaning as a restraint on what we say (or write) because this first-step down the interpretive path contains all the others. This is not to say I put forth my reply without restraint-such a condition is unimaginable-but merely to signal that the restraints that are in place are not fixed but flexible, subject always to alteration through persuasive appeals. That said, let me turn to the prickly pages of Pfeffer's "Mortality, Reproducibility and the Persistence of Styles of Theory." In this piece, I am portrayed as something of a villain for refuting certain arguments in Pfeffer (1993) that now appear to him to be "scarcely controversial with respect to their empirical foundations and probably not even [controversial] in the logic of the argument" (Pfeffer 1995, p. 682, emphasis and parenthesis mine). Given his remarks about our "toopluralistic" field and the advantages he attributes to paradigm consensus, such a statement strikes me as either disingenuous or naive. But, whatever the case, it does present an explicit and easily identifiable move in our respective language game and as such falls neatly into the argumentative web I spin here. This essay is my brief answer to why Jeff s position is so very controversial (and so very wrong). I must admit however to feeling serious readers may very well anticipate my arguments for they are largely rehashings of points I put forth in "Style as Theory" (Van Maanen 1995). But, be that as it may, one always yearns for the last word in the academic blood-sport called debate.2 And, more to the point, I find the challenge issued in Jeff's reply to be as appealing as his scholarship is appalling. So into rhetorical politics I again plunge.

Abstract: 1. List of contributors 2. Introduction (by Hakulinen, Auli) 3. Part I. Syntactic resources in conversation 4. Syntax and prosody as methods for the construction and identification of turn-constructional units in conversation (by Selting, Margret) 5. Parenthesis as a resource in the grammar of conversation (by Duvallon, Outi) 6. Delayed self-repairs as a structuring device for complex turns in conversation (by Auer, Peter) 7. Pivot constructions in spoken German (by Scheutz, Hannes) 8. The use of marked syntactic constructions in Italian multi-party conversation (by Monzoni, Chiara M.) 9. Grammatical constructions in "real life practices": WO-constructions in everyday German (by Gunthner, Susanne) 10. Interactional and sequential configurations informing request format selection in children's speech (by Wootton, Anthony) 11. Language as social action: A study of how senior citizens request assistance with practical tasks in the Swedish home help service (by Lindstrom, Anna) 12. Part II. Lexico-semantic resources in conversation 13. The interactional generation of exaggerated versions in conversation (by Drew, Paul) 14. A linguistic practice for retracting overstatements: 'Concessive repair' (by Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth) 15. Conversational interpretation of lexical items and conversational contrasting (by Deppermann, Arnulf) 16. Form and function of 'first verbs' in talk-in-interaction (by Schulze-Wenck, Stephanie) 17. Notes on disaligning 'yes but' initiated utterances in Danish and German conversations: Two construction types for dispreferred responses (by Steensig, Jakob) 18. Where grammar and interaction meet: The preference for matched polarity in responsive turns in Danish (by Heinemann, Trine) 19. Index