Publications

Publication details [#54908]

Bateman, Amanda. 2011. Huts and heartache: The affordance of playground huts for legal debate in early childhood social organisation. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (13) : 3111–3121.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interactional sociolinguistics | primary school | social interaction | social structure | space deixis, processing of

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses how four-year-old children address the complex co-production of rules and social governance in their school playground in Wales, UK, by talking into being certain spatial affordances (such as wooden huts) during everyday social interactions at morning break time.