Joan Swann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3827558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Swann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Swann |
| SIGNATURE | SWANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sociolinguistics and language creativity
Storytelling and story-acting
In the light of sustained interest in the potential value of young children’s narrative play, this article examines Vivian Gussin Paley’s approach to storytelling and story-acting, in this case with 3- to 5-year-olds. It scrutinises how children’s narratives are co-constructed during adult–child and peer interactions through spoken and embodied modes, as their stories are scribed by an adult and later dramatised by their peers. Data are drawn fro…
Language and Gender
Gender Talk
J udith B axter . Positioning Gender in Discourse
Developing a sociolinguistic voice? Students and linguistic descriptivism
Describing Language
Girls, Boys, and Language
Boys, Girls and Language
Response to Hammersley's Evaluation of Two Studies of Gender Imbalance in Primary Classrooms
Speaking Fundamental Frequency
Previous correlational studies have found no relationship between speaker height, weight and speaking fundamental frequency, although it has often been claimed that listeners can correctly identify the height, weight, and bodily build of speakers and that voice pitch is one of the cues used. In this study various social factors were controlled for, and contrasting samples of speech from each subject were analysed. Twelve men and 15 women, drawn f…
Gender Talk
Sociolinguistics and language creativity
Speaking Fundamental Frequency
Previous correlational studies have found no relationship between speaker height, weight and speaking fundamental frequency, although it has often been claimed that listeners can correctly identify the height, weight, and bodily build of speakers and that voice pitch is one of the cues used. In this study various social factors were controlled for, and contrasting samples of speech from each subject were analysed. Twelve men and 15 women, drawn f…
Response to Hammersley's Evaluation of Two Studies of Gender Imbalance in Primary Classrooms
Speaking Fundamental Frequency
Previous correlational studies have found no relationship between speaker height, weight and speaking fundamental frequency, although it has often been claimed that listeners can correctly identify the height, weight, and bodily build of speakers and that voice pitch is one of the cues used. In this study various social factors were controlled for, and contrasting samples of speech from each subject were analysed. Twelve men and 15 women, drawn f…
Response to Hammersley's Evaluation of Two Studies of Gender Imbalance in Primary Classrooms
Boys, Girls and Language
Girls, Boys, and Language
Describing Language
Developing a sociolinguistic voice? Students and linguistic descriptivism
J udith B axter . Positioning Gender in Discourse
Gender Talk
Language and Gender
Storytelling and story-acting
In the light of sustained interest in the potential value of young children’s narrative play, this article examines Vivian Gussin Paley’s approach to storytelling and story-acting, in this case with 3- to 5-year-olds. It scrutinises how children’s narratives are co-constructed during adult–child and peer interactions through spoken and embodied modes, as their stories are scribed by an adult and later dramatised by their peers. Data are drawn fro…
Sociolinguistics and language creativity
Sociology (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Gender Studies in Language (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Citation (4 works) · Library science (4 works)