ABSTRACT
This chapter organises the material around the themes that emerged in the author's review of the academic literature and popular culture. It highlights the way in which twins seem to account for their twinship using the representational frame of couples. Crucially, the chapter also draws attention to aspects of the research material that have enabled the author to make the link between what twins say and their cultural context. He argues that twins possibly draw from couple discourses in the way that they talk about themselves. The author further argues that the notion of a couple as a metaphor can be used to solve the problems of misunderstanding twins on the part of others and twins struggling to understand themselves. The chapter addresses a gap in the research on identical twins by looking at how they make use of couple discourses.
