Publications

Publication details [#46235]

Griswold, Olga. 2007. Achieving Authority: Discursive Practices in Russian Girls' Pretend Play. Research on Language and Social Interaction 40 (4) : 291–319.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

authority | children's play | discursive practice | girls' language | pretending

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper explores how Russian girls, aged 6 to 9 years old, use bodily orientation in combination with linguistic actions to demonstrate their subservience to dominant peers' authority in pretend play nonconflictual environments.