Publications

Publication details [#52992]

Laakso, Minna and Tuula Tykkyläinen. 2010. Five-year-old girls negotiating pretend play: Proposals with the Finnish particle jooko. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (1) : 242–256.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agreeing | children's play | conversational analysis | pretending | question

Language as a subject

Finnish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on the Helsinki Cross-Sectional Child Language Corpus, this ethnomethodological conversation analysis discusses how five-year-old Finnish girls propose and negotiate their ongoing pretend play activity, deploying 'jooko', the Finnish agreement pursuing question particle.