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Social order in child communication : a study in microethnography / Jürgen Streeck

Streeck, Jürgen,i1952- [Verfasser]

Amsterdam [u.a.] : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1983

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (vi, 130 pages) : Illustrations

Pragmatics & beyond ; IV:8

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-130)

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

978-90-272-8031-2 ; 90-272-8031-2

 

'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.