Social Order in Child Communication
A study in microethnography
Published on 1. January 1983
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-0-915027-30-9 (ISBN)
Description
'Context' is a concept for linguistic analysis which has rarely been subjected to close empirical scrutiny. This volume presents an attempt to investigate in microscopic detail various processes of contextualization by which children organize their interaction 'frame by frame', achieve, sustain, and embody their working consensus on what it is that they are doing together, and thereby situate their linguistic activities. Microethnography comprises research methods of context analysis, ethnography, and conversational analysis and seeks to locate phenomena of social order in both verbal and nonverbal behavior.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-915027-30-9 (9780915027309)
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Content
1. Acknowledgments; 2. 0. Introduction; 3. 1. Beyond Pragmatics: The Behavioral Organization of Talk; 4. 2. The Emergence of Microethnography; 5. 3. Peer-Group Interaction; 6. 4. The Study: Materials and Guiding Questions; 7. 5. Spatial Organization and the Formation of Coalitions; 8. 5.1. Incidents of the formation of gender coalitions; 9. 5.2. The structure of the territory; 10. 5.3. Leave-taking; 11. 6. Negotiating the Plan of the Encounter; 12. 6.1. Reconstructing participants' plans; 13. 6.2. The notation of plans; 14. 6.3. Carolyn's peer teaching; 15. 6.4. Wallace's peer teaching; 16. 6.5. Leola's peer teaching; 17. 7. Frames, Attention Patterns, and States of Talk; 18. 7.1. Frames; 19. 7.2. States of talk, attention and participation structures; 20. 7.3. Frames and states of talk in the peer teaching episodes; 21. 8. Frames and Normative Order; 22. 9. Conclusion; 23. References