Cynthia Jean Gordon

Family Talk: Discourse And Identity in Four American Families

Family Talk: Discourse And Identity in Four American Families

For There Is Hope Of A Tree: Sever the negative roots of your past and start living

Each one of us was birthed with purpose, but sadly many of us never fulfil it. We journey from life to death and never experience living. This book isn’t about living a vicarious life or absent-mindedly living as if there’s no tomorrow. It’s a book of hope. A book to help you discard your mask, and ...

The Motherhood Business: Consumption, Communication, and Privilege (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)

The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship associated with motherhood, the collection considers how different forms of privilege (class, race, ...

Acute Xpressions: From da Club 2 da Church House

In ~ Acute Xpressions~ From da Club 2 da Church House, Cynthia shares with her readers her remarkable life experiences – the bitter and the sweet. This masterpiece is based on the joys of life she has experienced as a child and the challenges she endured as a young adult. Although she grew up in a t...

Family Talk: Discourse and Identity in Four American Families

Through everyday talk, individuals forge the ties that can make a family. Family members use language to manage a household, create and maintain relationships, and negotiate and reinforce values and beliefs. The studies gathered in Family Talk are based on a unique research project in which four dua...

Making Meanings, Creating Family: Intertextuality and Framing in Family Interaction

A husband echoes back words that his wife said to him hours before as a way of teasing her. A parent always uses a particular word when instructing her child not to talk during naptime. A mother and family friend repeat each other's instructions as they supervise a child at a shopping mall. Our ever...