This study focuses on parent-child argumentation to identify the argumentative strategies most frequently used by
parents to resolve in their favor the process of negotiation occurring during argumentative dialogues with their children at
mealtime. Findings of the analysis of 132 argumentative dialogues indicate that parents mostly use arguments based on the notions
of quality and quantity in food-related discussions. The parents use other types of arguments such as the appeal to consistency,
the arguments from authority, and the arguments from analogy, in discussions related to the teaching of correct behaviors in
social situations within and outside the family context. The results of this study show how parents and children contribute to
co-constructing the dialogic process of negotiating their divergent opinions.
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