Parent child interaction in Nigerian families: conversation analysis, context and culture

Some caveats

Despite the fact that our study presents data from a relatively small number of parent-child dyads,
we believe that the results have external validity. Close examination of the interactional patterns
and the many instances of talk within the data potentially display wider social phenomena,
characteristic of other CA studies (Seedhouse, 2005). However, we acknowledge that not all
mother-child dyads will share similar awareness of the macro-context nor may they share the
same social goals. Although this study has shown that the ethnicity paradigm is a procedurally
consequential one for the participants during their interactions (Schegloff, 1992), different aspects
of context may be relevant to other participants at other times, so it cannot be assumed that any
single contextual feature will remain relevant. Generalisations within the Nigerian community
should therefore be made with caution. The ‘social machineries’ driving each parent-child dyad
are unlikely to be identical in each case. The relevance of certain aspects of context to the
participants must be evaluated before assumptions about the importance of a particular feature are
made (Schegloff, 1992).

Conclusions

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