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Publication details [#41664]

Sealey, Alison. 1996. ‘Who do You Think You Are?’: Four Children’s Sociolinguistic Strategies in the Negotiation of Self. Current Issues in Language & Society 3 (1) : 22–35.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | everyday conversation | language use | negotiation | sociolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines ways in which four children, aged 8 and 9 years, negotiated social identities or 'social selves' via their language use in spontaneous, casual conversation with others.