Analysing Interactions in Childhood

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Insights from Conversation Analysis

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Analysing Interactions in Childhood offers a fresh perspective on how conversation analysis reveals the sophisticated ways children engage with peers, parents, and adults. Featuring leading experts from academic and professional backgrounds, it explores interactions among typically developing children and those with participation challenges. The book integrates linguistic, psychological, and sociological views and sheds light on children’s communication as they transition from home to broader society across diverse cultural settings.
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This book is suited for academics, researchers, and advanced students in education, linguistics, psychology, speech therapy, and social sciences interested in childhood communication and conversation analysis.

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.

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Analysing Interactions in Childhood 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.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Discourse Studies praises it as "an extremely well-edited and well-balanced book" that extends conversation analysis into developmental and applied research. Speech & Language Therapy in Practice describes it as thought-provoking and comprehensive, ideal for academics and students seeking current information.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470760345

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 January 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Contributors:

Edited by Hilary Gardner
Edited by Michael Forrester

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 581g

Pages: 296

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About the Author

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.