Publications

Publication details [#65392]

Mahon, Merle and Joanna Friedland. 2018. Sister talk: Investigating an older sibling’s responses to verbal challenges. Discourse Studies 20 (3) : 340–360.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

children's play | conversational analysis | disagreeing | face maintenance | response

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This conversation analytic case study proposes an evidence-based report of how an older sibling replies to verbal dares from her younger sibling during home free play. It states that the skill to reply to dares while upholding intersubjectivity is an element of communicative ability.