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Publication details [#53076]

Schick, Laurie. 2010. Want and the language socialization of multiple competencies in middle school dance classes. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (6) : 1719–1736.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | language proficiency | language use | modal verb | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study uses a language socialization perspective to explore how the modal verb 'want' is being deployed in two middle school dance classes as an instrument for socializing students into multiple (i.e. linguistic and dance) competencies.