Interaction and the Development of Mind (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)

Interaction and the Development of Mind

📁 Interaction and the Development of Mind (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)

✍ A. J. Wootton 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This study identifies key mechanisms through which a young child operates with external knowledge in his/her immediate social context. Central to this is the child's capacity to draw on discourse-based understandings that have become evident in prior interaction. In contrast to studies that analyze

Prosody in Conversation: Interactional S

📁 Prosody in Conversation: Interactional Studies (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)

✍ Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Margret Selting 📂 Library 📅 1996 🌐 English

The essays in this volume are all analyses of prosody--primarily intonation and rhythm--and the role it plays in everyday conversation. Prosody emerges as a strategy deployed by interactants in the management of turn-taking and floor-holding; in the negotiation of conversational activities such as

AIDS Counselling: Institutional Interact

📁 AIDS Counselling: Institutional Interaction and Clinical Practice (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)

✍ Anssi Perakyla 📂 Library 📅 1996 🌐 English

Conversations between AIDS counselors and their clients bring delicate and potentially threatening issues into play. In this study Anssi Per?kyl? applies the principles of conversation analysis to his exploration of AIDS counseling, using data from video-recorded counseling sessions in a London teac

Discourse and Identity (Studies in Inter

📁 Discourse and Identity (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)

✍ Anna De Fina, Deborah Schiffrin, Michael Bamberg 📂 Library 📅 2006 🌐 English

The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variab

Gender and Politeness (Studies in Intera

📁 Gender and Politeness (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)

✍ Sara Mills 📂 Library 📅 2003 🌐 English

Challenging the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men (as language and gender literature claim), Sara Mills discusses the complex relationship between gender and politeness. Mills argues that, although women speakers, drawing on stereotypes of femininity, can appear to be act

Interaction and the development of mind

📁 Interaction and the development of mind

✍ Wootton A.J. 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 CUP 🌐 English

This study identifies key mechanisms through which a young child operates with external knowledge in his/her immediate social context. Central to this is the child's capacity to draw on discourse-based understandings that have become evident in prior interaction. In contrast to studies that analyze