A Case Study of the One- Child-Parent Relationship- The Application of Conversation Analysis
Deng Yunfei

Abstract
Conversation Analysis (CA), according to Jack Sidnell, is “an approach with the social sciences that aims to describe, analyze and understand talk as a basic and constitutive feature of human social life.”The one-child policy in China has recently been disputed to have bred a generation of spoiled and lonely children. This paper attempts at finding out whether a single child is a lonely child and whether he or she has been spoiled and lacks ability to negotiate with people around, by delving into the mechanism of “turn-taking”, “implicature”, and “Cooperative Principle” within a conversation that a school girl has had with her parents on a casual occasion.

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