Children’s Peer Cultures in Dialogue: Participation, hierarchy, and social identity in diverse schools
Nicola Nasi
[Dialogue Studies, 34] 2024. x, 202 pp.
Nicola Nasi
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicola Nasi plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Sociology
Articles
2023 Morality and polyphony in peer dialogues: Children’s moral practices in heterogeneous classrooms (Inter)Cultural Dialogues, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 453–474 | Article
This study investigates children’s dialogic negotiation of the moral order of the classroom in a heterogeneous peer group. Drawing from video-ethnographic research in two primary schools in Italy, the study adopts a CA-informed approach to analyze 9- to 10-year-old children’s dialogic… read more
2022 Practices of inclusion/exclusion in and through classroom dialogue: Children’s peer socialization to institutional norms of literacy and language use Towards Culture(s) of Dialogue: Communicating Unity and Diversity through Language and Discourse, Okulska, Urszula, Grzegorz Kowalski and Urszula Topczewska (eds.), pp. 306–331 | Article
The paper explores non-native children’s peer socialization to norms of literacy and appropriate language use in the classroom. Drawing on ethnographic research in a primary school in northern Italy, this study adopts a CA-informed approach to analyze an Italian L2 class attended by children… read more
2021 Chapter 5. Language, interaction, and culture at school: An overview Language and Social Interaction at Home and School, Caronia, Letizia (ed.), pp. 193–220 | Chapter
The chapter provides an overview of selected studies that, from the mid-twentieth century, have variously dealt with classroom language, interaction, and culture. Moving from the recognition that schools represent (at least in western societies) a major site for children’s socialization into the… read more