“What do you want for breakfast? Privacy!": Defining/Trespassing Boundaries in Family Discourse

Te present study aims to investigate privacy invasion/tutelage in the family environment as presented in the eighth season of the American TV series Te Goldbergs (2020–2021) More specifcally, the utterances spoken by Beverly and Murray will be taken into consideration in order to understand how language affects their personality and the relationship with their relatives By offering a qualitative analysis of selected excerpts, I intend to demonstrate that, in some instances, parents use words to either distance themselves or exert control over the spouse or the prole