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The Hidden Life of Girls : Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion.

On countless playgrounds each day, girls are at work crafting intricate social arrangements through language and embodied action. This book documents the language practices and interactive rituals used not only to sanction friends who violate social norms, but also to bully younger girls and those r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goodwin, Marjorie Harness
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Colección:Blackwell studies in discourse and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Multimodality, Conflict, and Rationality in Girls' Games; 3 Social Dimensions of a Popular Girls' Clique; 4 Social Organization, Opposition, and Directives in the Game of Jump Rope; 5 Language Practices for Indexing Social Status: Stories, Descriptions, Brags, and Comparisons; 6 Stance and Structure in Assessment and Gossip Activity; 7 Constructing Social Difference and Exclusion in Girls' Groups; 8 Conclusion; Appendix A Transcription Symbols; Appendix B Jump Rope Rhymes; Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index.