Children's Voices Talk, Knowledge and Identity

by Maybin, Janet

• ISBN13: 9781403933300
• ISBN10: 1403933308
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Drawing on ethnographic research inside and outside the classroom, Janet Maybin investigates how 10-12 year-old children use talk and literacy to construct knowledge about their social worlds and about themselves, as they negotiate the transition from childhood into adolescence. Through the analysis of examples of talk, she shows how children use collaborative verbal strategies, stories of personal experience and the reworked voices of others to investigate the moral order and forge their own identities.

Author Biography

Janet Maybin is a Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication at the Open University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Transcription Conventions	x
Introduction	1	(1)
Focussing on the margins	1	(1)
Conceptualising voice and meaning-making	2	(4)
Outline of the chapters	6	(3)
Setting the Scene	9	(23)
Shifting the lens	11	(2)
The researcher in the data	13	(4)
From context to contextualisation	17	(4)
From dialogue to dialogicality	21	(4)
Evaluation, socialisation and identity	25	(4)
Towards a more dynamic language of description	29	(3)
Context, Genre and Frames	32	(22)
Switching contexts	34	(2)
The generic production of meaning	36	(7)
The intertextual construction of the present	43	(4)
Microcontexts: manipulating frames	47	(5)
Conclusion	52	(2)
Dialogue and Collaboration: Girls and Boys	54	(21)
The duet of friendship	56	(7)
Producing unformalised knowledge in group talk	63	(7)
Gender, communicative style and identity	70	(3)
Conclusion	73	(2)
Reported Voices and Evaluation	75	(21)
Representing voices: grammatical and other cues	77	(2)
Invoking and evaluating people	79	(5)
Recreating events	84	(6)
Evaluation in projected speech and reported thought	90	(3)
Conclusion	93	(3)
Articulating Dialogue: Agency and Gender in Children's Anecdotes	96	(19)
Representing experience and exploring the self	97	(1)
Three levels of narrative meaning	98	(4)
Indexicalisation and dialogic relationships	102	(10)
Conclusion	112	(3)
Narrative Reflections and Moral Complexities	115	(25)
Articulating moral stances	116	(6)
Beleaguered positions	122	(8)
Divided loyalties	130	(8)
Conclusion	138	(2)
Schooled Voices	140	(20)
A framework for understanding reproduced voices	142	(3)
Repetition and appropriation in teacher-pupil dialogue	145	(7)
Reproducing authoritative voices: appropriation and styling	152	(2)
Framing work and play	154	(4)
Conclusion	158	(2)
Official and Unofficial Literacies	160	(24)
Official literacy: power, procedure and product	163	(3)
Hybrid practices	166	(8)
Unofficial literacy	174	(3)
Personal writing: identity and regulation	177	(5)
Conclusion	182	(2)
Conclusion	184	(6)
Notes	190	(7)
References	197	(7)
Index	204