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Publication details [#49108]

Danby, Susan, Charlotte Cobb-Moore and Ann Farrell. 2008. 'I told you so': justification used in disputes in young children's interactions in an early childhood classroom. Discourse Studies 10 (5) : 595–614.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | classroom conversation | justifying

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Drawing on conversation and membership categorization analysis, this paper explores the interactional phenomenon of justification, employed by young children to manage social organization within their peer group in an early childhood classroom.