Children's Worlds and Children's Language

✍ Scribed by Jenny Cook-Gumperz (editor); William A. Corsaro (editor); Jürgen Streeck (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 500
• Series: New Babylon; 47
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction
Issues in Theory and Method of Studying Children’s Worlds
1. Studying Children’s Worlds: Methodological Issues
2. Caught in a Web of Words: Some Considerations on Language Socialization and Language Acquisition
The Preschool Years
3. From Early Interaction Patterns to Language Acquisition: Which Continuity?
4. The Construction of Joint Activities with an Age-Mate: The Transition from Caregiver-Child to Peer Play
5. The Social World of Kwara’ae Children: Acquisition of Language and Values
6. The Social Construction of the Sibling Relationship
7. Rules in Action: Orderly Features of Actions that Formulate Rules
Nursery School and the Early Grades
8. The Young Child’s Image of the Person and the Social World: Some Aspects of the Child’s Representation of Persons
9. Development of Communicative Skills: The Construction of Fictional Reality in Children’s Play
10. Routines in Peer Culture
11. A Silent World of Movements. Interactional Processes among Deaf Children
Middle Childhood and Adolescence
12. Towards Reciprocity: Politics, Rank and Gender in the Interaction of a Group of Schoolchildren
13. Activity Structure as Scaffolding for Children’s Second Language Learning
14. Adult Elicited Child Behavior: The Paradox of Measuring Social Competence Through Interviewing
15. Learning How to Become an Interlocutor. The Verbal Negotiation of Common Frames of Reference and Actions in Dyads of 7–14 Year Old Children
16. The Social Organization of Adolescent Gossip: The Rhetoric of Moral Evaluation
17. Learning How to Contradict and Still Pursue a Common End – The Ontogenesis of Moral Argumentation
Subject Index