Publications

Publication details [#53362]

Pontecorvo, Clotilde, Marilena Fatigante and Vivian Liberati. 2010. Transitions in and out of Games: How Parents and Children Bracket Game Episodes at Home. Research on Language and Social Interaction 43 (1) : 346–371.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

children's play | code | family conversation | game theory | mother-child conversation

Language as a subject

Italian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study demonstrates how game prefaces and codas permit (Italian) parents to perform simultaneous operations (such as, observing housekeeping activities) during game episodes with their children at home.