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Publication details [#45546]

Lytra, Vally. 2007. Play Frames and Social Identities: Contact encounters in a Greek primary school. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 163). John Benjamins. xii+300 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

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.