The language of love and guilt : mother-daughter relationships from a cross-cultural perspective

Although Mother And Daughter Are Two Central Female Roles, They Have Rarely Been Investigated. The Relationship Is Specific, Certainly Different Than The Mother-son Or Father-daughter Relationships. And This Difference Manifests Itself In Sex-specific Language Behavior. Despite Eternal Features Of The Mother-daughter Relationship, Its Quality Is Affected By Individual Psychological And By Sociocultural Variables. Thus, Investigations Took Place In Two Big Cities With Very Different Structures And Traditions: Vienna And Los Angeles. This Is The First Cross Cultural Study Which Reflects And Combines Multiple Linguistic, Socio-psycholinguistic And Text Linguistic Categories, Approaches And Methods To Be Able To Investigate Such An Important Topic As Family Relationships And The Place Of Women Nowadays In Our Societies. Introduction -- 2. The Relationship Between Mother And Daughter -- Mother-child Discourse -- 4. Saple, Methodology, And Collection Of Data -- 5. Definition Of The Categories -- 6. Sociological-psychological Parameters Of The Mother-daughter Relationship. Socio-psychological Variation (spv) -- 7. Self And Other Assessment. Ruth Wodak, Muriel Schulz. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. [220]-247. 1. 1. Introduction 2. 2. The relationship between mother and daughter 3. 3. Mother-child discourse 4. 4. Sample, methodology, and collection of data 5. 5. Definition of the categories 6. 6. Sociological-psychological parameters of the mother-daughter relationship. Socio-psychological variation (spv) 7. 7. Self and other assessment 8. Appendix I - The case histories 9. Appendix II - Tables 10. Appendix III - The Giessen test 11. Appendix IV - Original versions of 8 Austrian essays 12. References 13. Index of Authors & Names 14. Index of Names