Goodwin The Hidden Life of Girls

Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7829-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture

Winner of the Best Book of 2008 from The InternationalGender and Language Association
In this ground-breaking ethnography of girls on a playground,Goodwin offers a window into their complex social worlds.
* Combats stereotypes that have dominated theories on femalemoral development by challenging the notion that girls areinherently supportive of each other
* Examines the stances that girls on a playground in amulticultural school setting assume and shows how they positionthemselves in their peer groups
* Documents the language practices and degradation rituals usedto sanction friends and to bully others
* Part of the Blackwell Studies in Discourse and CultureSeries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodwin, Majorie Harness

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables.
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 Gameof 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

Über Autor(innen)

Marjorie Harness Goodwin is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. She is the author of the now-classic He-Said, She-Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children (1991). Her primary research interests are on the ethnography of communication, human interaction, conversation analysis, language and gender, workplace ethnography, and children's social organization.