BENEATH FAMILY ROLE PORTRAYALS - AN ADDITIONAL MEASURE OF COMMUNICATION INFLUENCE USING TIME-SERIES ANALYSES OF TURN AT TALK ON A POPULAR TELEVISION PROGRAM

Historically dominance has been operationalized in terms of the freque ncy of some behavior (talk, gaze). An alternative measure of dominance is based on the asymmetry of predictability in which a ''dominant'' i ndividual's preceding behaviors elicit a predictable response from som eone else but not the inverse. Various types of communicative influenc e are examined in order to explain modeling of family interaction on t elevision. The portrayal of family interaction is examined in one of t he most popular comedy shows of the 1980's. A time-series analyses of turn-at-talk revealed varying patterns of family interaction as a cons equence of familial roles (parents, children, sibling). The results ar e discussed in terms of socio-egocentric speech in which individuals s peak in monologues rather than dialogues.