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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lytra, Vally.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond.

Pragmatics & beyond new series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of minorities--Education (Elementary)--Greece--Athens--Case studies.

Children of minorities.

Education, Elementary--Greece--Athens--Case studies.

Education, Elementary.

Multiculturalism--Greece--Athens--Case studies.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Athens primary school. It offers the reader a unique look into the ways in which children draw upon their rich interactional histories and share, transform and recontextualize linguistic and other semiotic resources in circulation to construct play frames and explore, adopt, resist available as well as novel social roles and identities. Drawing on ethnographically informed approaches to discourse, the book shows the ways in which verbal phenomena such as teasing, joking, language play, music making and chanting can provide a productive locus for the study of the negotiation of social identities and roles at school. This book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, cultural studies, and multicultural education. It will also be of interest to anthropologists and sociologists.

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

Subject index

References

Author index

The series Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612152443

9781282152441

1282152440

9789027291783

9027291780

OCLC:

647685040