This study explores how second-generation parents in Norway manoeuvre generational and institutional relationships what consequences this may have for participation ethnicity-based networks majority society. The context is an advanced welfare state which ideals of dual-earner, gender-equal child-centred families are facilitated through provisions care the youngest children. We argue that moving...

There is broad agreement among evolutionary linguists that the emergence of human language, as opposed to other primate communication systems, is characterised by two key phenomena: the use of symbols, and the use of grammatical structure (Tomasello 2003). In this paper, we show that these two defining aspects of language actually emerge from the same set of underlying cognitive mechanisms with...

We argue, reason, cajole, and persuade — we deploy rhetoric — because we are social animals endowed with a symbolic mode of thought and communication who seek to shape our social environment, to compete, and to cooperate. As rhetoricians, philosophers, and semiologists have regularly noticed, some patterns of argumentation and cajolery are more successful than others. These patterns of usage — ...