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Publication details [#26635]

Evaldsson, Ann-Carita. 2002. Bouys' gossip telling. Staging identities and indexing (unacceptable) masculine behavior. Text 22 (2) : 199–225.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | identity negotiation | women's vs. men's language

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-4888

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This study examines how preadolescent Swedish boys with low-income backgrounds stage and index social identities in everyday peer gossip telling, taking into account the institutional and cultural frameworks embedded in the interaction.