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[Harold Schiffman]

Contact encounters in a Greek primary school
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 163
 2007 John Benjamins     http://www.benjamins.com/



Author: Vally Lytra


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.

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