Marital decision making: A language‐action analysis

摘要: This study of marital decision making focuses upon a dual career couple timely marital‐career decision: whether to relocate their household for his or her career. A language‐action model highlights multiple components the context, such as institutional constraints, shared information, and form structure conversation. Through interface these conversation analysis is rendered, then compared with couple's perceptions making. They describe themselves equals, but suggests husband exerts more influence. Several reasons this discrepancy between observer's participants’ views are examined.