Publications

Publication details [#50976]

Lytra, Vally. 2009. Constructing academic hierarchies: Teasing and identity work among peers at school. Pragmatics 19 (3) : 449–466.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | multicultural education | multilingualism | primary school | teasing

Language as a subject

Greek | Turkish

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study discusses how child members of a (majority) Greek- (minority) Turkish multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic peer group of Roma descent, use teasing and identity negotiation to construct academic hierarchies in an Athens primary school.