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Publication details [#35043]

Dorr-Bremme, Donald W. 1990. Contextualization cues in the classroom: Discourse regulation and social control functions. Language in Society 19 (3) : 379–402.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | contextualization cue | discourse strategy

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper shows how three types of contextualization cues can, under certain conditions, serve as means of discourse regulation and social control. The data consider kindergarten and first grade classroom interaction in a Boston working class suburb.