Publications

Publication details [#51052]

Melander, Helen and Fritjof Sahlström. 2009. In tow of the blue whale: Learning as interactional changes in topical orientation. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (8) : 1519–1537.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | learning | participant | reading | social interaction

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper uses conversation analysis to explore how learning in interaction is accomplished by three 7-year-old children, participating in picture book reading on the topic of blue whales.