Play Frames And Social Identities: Contact Encounters In A Greek Primary School (pragmatics And Beyond New Series)

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. Play Frames and Social Identities......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Table of contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 1. Playful talk, play frames and identity work......Page 26 2. Setting the scene......Page 52 3. Playful talk across contexts at school......Page 86 4. Sequencing and response work......Page 132 5. Play frames and the organisation of classroom talk......Page 174 6. Playful talk, play frames and social identities across contexts......Page 218 Conclusion......Page 264 post script. Six years later......Page 270 appendix I. Maps and classroom plan......Page 276 appendix II. Data sources......Page 280 appendix III. Transcription conventions......Page 288 Subject index......Page 310 References......Page 290 Author index......Page 306 The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series......Page 314 Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Playful Talk, Play Frames And Identity Work: An Ethnographically Informed Sociolinguistic Approach -- Setting The Scene -- Playful Talk Across Contexts At School: Emergence And Development -- Sequencing And Response Work: Teasing Children's Talk In Recreational Contexts -- Play Frames And The Organisation Of Classroom Talk -- 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. Vally Lytra. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [277]-292) And Indexes.