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Publication details [#46237]

Harness Goodwin, Marjorie. 2007. Participation and Embodied Action in Preadolescent Girls' Assessment Activity. Research on Language and Social Interaction 40 (4) : 353–375.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | girls' language | gossip | participation framework | primary school

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper explores participation and embodied interaction during a preadolescent 11-year-old American girls' assessment activity, viz. a gossip session in which they evaluate a softball game captain and his girlfriend who have shut them out from the game.