Social order in child communication a study in microethnography - Streeck, Jürgen 1952- (J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1983)
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SOCIALORDER IN CHILD COMMUNICATION A Study in Microethnography; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 0. INTRODUCTION; 1. BEYOND PRAGMATICS: THE BEHAVIORAL ORGANIZATION OF TALK; 2. THE EMERGENCE OF MICROETHNOGRAPHY; 3. PEER-GROUP INTERACTION; 4. THE STUDY: MATERIALS AND GUIDING QUESTIONS; 5. SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND THE FORMATION OF COALITIONS; 5.1. Incidents of the formation of gender coalitions; 5.2. The structure of the territory; 5.3. Leave-taking; 6. NEGOTIATING THE PLAN OF THE ENCOUNTER; 6.1. Reconstructing participants' plans
'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 nonv