This study looks at whether untrained observers are able to ‘read’ children's gestures, particularly those that do not match the child's speech...
Keywords: children, gestures, mismatches, learning interpretation
02/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterIdiosyncratic comments or questions in classrooms are often considered errors or indicate that the learner was off-task...
Keywords: meaning-making, children, affordance, unlimited semiosis, learning, rhizome
04/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterDrawing from a corpus of naturalistic videotaped data documenting everyday activities of 32 middle-class dual-earner families in Los Angeles, California, this article explores children's bedtime routines as an interactional matrix for carrying out culturally salient relational work, illustrating how family members co-participate in a ‘discourse of anticipation’ that prepares for—yet simultaneously forestalls—the moment of bedtime separation...
Keywords: children, closing routines, conversation analysis, family communication, language socialization, relational work
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter