Asta Cekaite
List of John Benjamins publications for which Asta Cekaite plays a role.
2021 Chapter 2.3. Embodiment in reciprocal laughter: Sharing laughter, gaze, and embodied stance in children’s peer group How Emotions Are Made in Talk, Robles, Jessica S. and Ann Weatherall (eds.), pp. 163–186 | Chapter
Laughter is a mundane phenomenon that is ubiquitous in social life. This chapter examines young children’s laughter, specifically focusing on the calibration of shared laughter as it typically occurs in multiparty interactions. It discusses children’s interactional competences in calibrating… read more
2016 Emotional stances and interactional competence: Learning to calibrate disagreements, objections, and refusals Emotion in Multilingual Interaction, Prior, Matthew T. and Gabriele Kasper (eds.), pp. 131–152 | Article
This chapter describes a 7-year-old child’s development of interactional competence in Swedish as a second language over a course of 1,5 years. The study documents L2 novices’ methods employed for doing disagreements and refusals by tracking lexico-grammatical and embodied features and the… read more
2014 Orchestrating directive trajectories in communicative projects in family interaction Requesting in Social Interaction, Drew, Paul and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 185–214 | Article
Exploring the entanglement of resources (facial expressions, gesture, gaze, and intonation) that mutually elaborate each other in the production of social action, across the life of a particular communicative project in family interactions (getting children to bed), we investigate the ways in which… read more
2010 “ ‘Schwedis’ he can’t even say Swedish” - subverting and reproducing institutionalized norms for language use in multilingual peer groups Heteroglossia and language ideologies in children’s peer play interactions, Kyratzis, Amy, Ann-Carita Evaldsson and Jennifer Reynolds (eds.), pp. 587–604 | Article
The present study explores how minority schoolchildren in multilingual peer group interactions act upon dominant educational and linguistic ideologies as they organize their everyday emerging peer culture. The data draw from ethnographies combined with detailed analysis (CA) of video recordings in… read more
2008 Developing conversational skills in a second language: Language learning affordances in a multiparty classroom setting Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner: Child's play?, Philp, Jenefer, Rhonda Oliver and Alison Mackey (eds.), pp. 105–129 | Article
From a longitudinal perspective, the present study explores L2 novices’ development of conversational skills in a primary school immersion classroom. Securing the teacher’s conversational involvement in a multiparty classroom setting usually involves a considerable amount of interactional work. The… read more