Analysing Interactions in Childhood Insights from Conversation Analysis

by Gardner, Hilary; Forrester, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780470760345
• ISBN10: 0470760346
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-08
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Offers a fresh perspective on how conversation analysis can be used to highlight the sophisticated nature of what children actually do when interacting with their peers, parents, and other adults. Brings together a contributor team of leading experts in the emerging field of child-focused conversation analytic studies, from both academic and professional research backgrounds Includes examples of typically developing children and those who face a variety of challenges to participation, as they interact with parents and friends, teachers, counsellors and health professionals Encompasses linguistic, psychological and sociological perspectives Offers new insights into children's communication as they move from home into wider society, highlighting how this is expressed in different cultural contexts

Author Biography

Hilary Gardner is a lecturer in Human Communication Sciences at Sheffield University, UK, and has worked as a speech and language therapist with children for over 30 years. Michael Forrester is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Kent, UK. Previous publications include the Development of Young Children's Social-Cognitive Skills and Psychology of Language.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Contributors	p. xvii
Interactions Between Typically Developing Children and Their Main Carers	p. 1
Next turn and intersubjectivity in children's language acquisition	p. 3
Hm? What? Maternal repair and early child talk	p. 23
Ethnomethodology and adult-child conversation: Whose development?	p. 42
'Actually' and the sequential skills of a two-year-old	p. 59
Children's emerging and developing self-repair practices	p. 74
Childhood Interactions in a Wider Social World	p. 101
Questioning repeats in the talk of four-year-old children	p. 103
Children's participation in their primary care consultations	p. 128
Feelings-talk and therapeutic vision in child-counsellor interaction	p. 146
Intersubjectivity and misunderstanding in adult-child learning conversations	p. 163
Interactions With Children Who Are Atypical	p. 183
Interactional analysis of scaffolding in a mathematical task in ASD	p. 135
Multi-modal participation in storybook sharing	p. 209
Child-initiated repair in task interactions	p. 227
Communication aid use in children's conversation: Time, timing and speaker transfer	p. 249
Glossary of transcript symbols	p. 267
Index	p. 269
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