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‘Read my hands not my lips’: Untrained observers' ability to interpret children's gestures

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 Gruyter
Learners' idiosyncratic links as affordances for meaning making in the semiotic process

Idiosyncratic 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 Gruyter
Habits of the hearth: Children's bedtime routines as relational work

Drawing 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