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Articulating Twintimacy as a Communicative and Cultural Perspective on Twinships
Journal of Family Communication Pub Date : 2019-08-26 , DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2019.1659272
Jordan Allen 1 , Nicole Allen 2 , Julia Moore 3
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ABSTRACT Unlike any other family relationship, twins are culturally understood as uncommon, special, and unique, while simultaneously in need of intervention to become separate, healthy individuals. Consequently, twins occupy a liminal cultural space where the spectacle of their relationship is praised and the intimacy of their relationship is often denigrated. To explore how individual twins navigate this double-bind, we adopted a cultural approach to examine the communicative constitution of intimacy in twin relationships (or twinships). Thirty-one twins participated in individual interviews about their relationship with their co-twin. Participant interviews indicated that twins make sense of their intimacy on a continuum of high and low levels of twintimacy, or intimacy of twin relationships characterized by individual and cultural constructions of twinships as extraordinary. Our findings revealed that twintimacy is both similar to and different from intimacy in singleton relationships. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of these results.

中文翻译:

阐明孪生主义是对双胞胎的一种交流和文化视角

摘要与任何其他家庭关系不同,双胞胎在文化上被理解为罕见,特殊和独特,同时需要干预才能成为独立的健康个体。因此,双胞胎占据了一种边缘文化空间,在这种文化空间中,他们的关系奇观受到赞扬,而他们之间的亲密关系常常被贬低。为了探索双胞胎如何穿越双胞胎,我们采用一种文化方法来研究双胞胎关系(或双胞胎)中亲密关系的交流性。31对双胞胎参加了有关他们与双胞胎的关系的个人访谈。参加者的访谈表明,双胞胎在连续的高和低水平的双亲关系中理解了他们的亲密关系,或双亲关系的亲密关系,其特征是双胞胎的个人和文化结构非同寻常。我们的研究结果表明,双亲关系在单身关系中既类似于亲密关系又不同于亲密关系。我们讨论了这些结果的理论和实践意义。
更新日期:2019-08-26
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