Play frames and social identities : contact encounters in a Greek primary school /

This book is a sociolinguistic study of children's talk and how they interact with one another and their teachers in multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic schools. It is based on tape recordings and ethnographic observations of majority Greek and minority Turkish-speaking children at an A...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Lytra, Vally.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2007.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond.
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Table of Contents:
  • Play Frames and Social Identities; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Playful talk, play frames and identity work; 2. Setting the scene; 3. Playful talk across contexts at school; 4. Sequencing and response work; 5. Play frames and the organisation of classroom talk; 6. Playful talk, play frames and social identities across contexts; Conclusion; post script. Six years later; appendix I. Maps and classroom plan; appendix II. Data sources; appendix III. Transcription conventions; References; Author index; Subject index.