Amy Kyratzis
Biographic Data
| ID | 77106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Kyratzis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Kyratzis |
| SIGNATURE | KYRATZIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-2009-2973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 261 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Articulating Shala Qazaq in America: Chronotopes and Language Ideologies in Central Asian Kazakh Families
This article examines how Central Asian Kazakh families in California draw on spatial–temporal chronotopes, including Soviet legacies, diasporic minority governance, post‐independence nation‐building, and U.S. migration/assimilation, through the culturally situated label of Shala Qazaq (“incomplete Kazakh”) to discursively construct moralized timelines of their life trajectories and transnational experiences, which in turn shape family language i…
Children’s language creativity, emergent performativity, and heteroglossia in multilingual educational settings
The number of children spending their time in multilingual educational environments where a cultural variety of languages are used has been rapidly growing in recent decades. By offering spaces for children to socialize with other children, educational settings in particular are crucial social arenas for children to develop social relations across ethnic and linguistic boundaries and where adult authorities provide learning spaces for children to…
Language scaling, heteroglossia, and identity work in boys’ peer group play in a bilingual Spanish-English preschool
This paper examines how a friendship group of four boys in a bilingual Spanish-English preschool classroom explore and exploit heterogeneous resources and social voices from community, family, school and media contexts in pretend play. Data are from a video-ethnography conducted at their preschool in California serving Mexican heritage families. Drawing on the frameworks of heteroglossia and language scaling, and multimodal conversation analysis,…
Taza Qazaqsha” or Translanguaging? Exploring heritage language maintenance strategies among Central Asian Kazakh immigrant families in California
This study applies Conversation Analysis to examine heritage language maintenance among Central Asian Kazakh families in the United States. The study analyzes naturally occurring conversations between a parent and toddler drawn from two Kazakh immigrant families from China and Kazakhstan. While both parents aspire to teach their children Taza Qazaqsha (“pure/clean Kazakh language”), both integrate translanguaging into their daily interactions, de…
Language, power and gender: A tribute to Susan Ervin-Tripp (1927–2018)
This is a tribute to Susan M. Ervin-Tripp, who would certainly be a contributor to this 'Thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research' had she not passed away on 13 November 2018 at the age of 91. She was Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. One of the contributors to the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Sue had a central role in the establishment of three academic fields…
Morality-in-interaction: Toddlers’ recyclings of institutional discourses of feeling during peer disputes in daycare
Everyday discursive practices comprising “emotion talk” constitute a site where morality is socialized. Yet few studies have examined how emotional expressions are assembled and serve as integral parts of the unfolding action in multi-party, remedial interchanges involving caregivers and children in early care settings. This paper examines a particular type of emotion talk, complement constructions with verbs of feeling (“want”) and saying (e.g.,…
Social context and language: A tribute to the lifework of Susan Ervin-Tripp
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Framing, footing, and language scaling practices in children's multilingual peer and sibling-kin group interactions: An introduction
Moral order among members of a friendship group of preschool boys
The making of assessment descriptions can be key processes in children’s negotiations of the social and moral orders of their peer groups. This paper examines how a friendship group of preschool boys followed through a year-long video-ethnography construct their local social and moral order, through use of a particular interactional resource, membership categorizations. A collection of clips of the boys’ use of membership categorizations was crea…
Enregistering Reading and Papá voices in peer bilingual play: Mexican heritage children's scaling practices at a bilingual U.S. preschool
Language Socialization in Children’s Peer and Sibling-Kin Group Interactions
Language Socialization in Children’s Peer and Sibling-Kin Group Interactions
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool: Heteroglossia, frame-shifting, and language ideology
The current English-only educational climate in California presents children with polarizing discourses about national belonging (Bailey 2007). This study uses language socialization theory (e.g., Garret and Baquedano-López 2002) and Bakhtin’s (1981) concept of “heteroglossia” to examine how members of a peer group of linguistic minority children attending a bilingual Spanish-English preschool in California used bilingual practices among themselv…
Dialogic syntax and complement constructions in toddlers' peer interactions
Children start producing grammatically complex sentences during toddlerhood (Bloom et al. 1984; Diessel 2004). This study examines how toddlers use complement constructions as a communicative resource in peer interactions. The data come from an archival database, which consists of 500 hours of videorecordings of children's naturalistic interactions in a daycare center. All complement constructions produced by seven target children were identified…
Validating justifications in preschool girls' and boys' friendship group talk: Implications for linguistic and socio-cognitive development
Children are believed to construct their causal theories through talk and interaction, but with the exception of a few studies, little or nothing is known about how young children justify and build theories of the world together with same-age peers through naturally occurring interaction, Children's sensitivity to when a pair or group of interlocutors who interact frequently together feel that a justification is needed, is an index of developing …
Using directives to construct egalitarian or hierarchical social organization: Turkish middle-class preschool girls’ socialization about gender, affect, and context in peer group conversations
Prior research by M. H. Goodwin (1990) found that preadolescent African-American girls socialized one another towards ‘egalitarian’ forms of social organization in task activities, but preferred forms that differentiated group members in other contexts. The present study examines how a friendship group of middle-class Turkish girls followed ethnographically (through videorecording of spontaneous free play conversations in their preschool classroo…
Sources of Coherence in the Life Stories of Cambodian American Women at the University
This article uses a life story framework (Linde, 1993 Linde, C. 1993. Life stories: The creation of coherence, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. [Google Scholar]) to examine the educational experiences of Cambodian American women college students. The literature suggests that Cambodian American female students experience particular educational challenges related to the gendered expectations of their cultural group. Two main themes emerged fr…
Format Tying and the Acquisition of Syntax in Toddlers’ Peer Interactions
Codes, code-switching, and context: Style and footing in peer group bilingual play
According to Bernstein (A sociolinguistic approach to socialization; with some reference to educability, Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1972), middle-class parents transmit an elaborated code to their children that relies on verbal means, rather than paralinguistic devices or shared assumptions, to express meanings. Bernstein's ideas were used to argue that working-class and linguistically diverse children in the United States were socialized to use a res…
Children Socializing Children: Practices for Negotiating the Social Order Among Peers
Using the Social Organizational Affordances of Pretend Play in American Preschool Girls' Interactions
Goodwin (1990, 1993) found that preadolescent girls could use the social organizational affordances of pretend play to enact hierarchical forms of social organization among themselves. This study examines how members of a preschool friendship group of 3 girls utilize the social organizational affordances of news reporter and Prince-Princess play. Asymmetry was created through the actions of 1 girl enacting the role of lead news reporter, assuming…
Language and Culture: Socialization through Personal Story-Telling Practice
Commentaries| July 11 2005 Language and Culture: Socialization through Personal Story-Telling Practice Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Amy Kyratzis Amy Kyratzis Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, Calif., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (2005) 48 (3): 146–150. https://doi.org/10.1159/000085517 Article …
Talking to Adults: The Contribution of Multiparty Discourse to Language Acquisition
Talk and Interaction Among Children and the Co-Construction of Peer Groups and Peer Culture
According to recent interpretive approaches to the study of children's socialization, meaning creation is an active process by which children playfully transform and actively resist cultural categories, and where language is viewed as social action that helps shape reality ( Gaskins et al. 1992 ). Four ways in which children's peer talk establishes and maintains peer culture are considered: (a) how children elaborate games and codes (and ritualiz…
Preschoolers' communicative competence: Register shift in the marking of power in different contexts of friendship group talk
Research has focused on the acquisition of register knowledge, the process by which children choose the appropriate speech (e.g., request forms) for the circumstance. This study examines preschoolers' control act language as a device to index ranking in the friendship group. Are certain children consistently indexed as high ranking and does ranking fluctuate by context? A longitudinal ethnographic study of a preschool classroom was conducted. Chi…
Talk and Interaction Among Children and the Co-Construction of Peer Groups and Peer Culture
According to recent interpretive approaches to the study of children's socialization, meaning creation is an active process by which children playfully transform and actively resist cultural categories, and where language is viewed as social action that helps shape reality ( Gaskins et al. 1992 ). Four ways in which children's peer talk establishes and maintains peer culture are considered: (a) how children elaborate games and codes (and ritualiz…
Children Socializing Children: Practices for Negotiating the Social Order Among Peers
Using the Social Organizational Affordances of Pretend Play in American Preschool Girls' Interactions
Goodwin (1990, 1993) found that preadolescent girls could use the social organizational affordances of pretend play to enact hierarchical forms of social organization among themselves. This study examines how members of a preschool friendship group of 3 girls utilize the social organizational affordances of news reporter and Prince-Princess play. Asymmetry was created through the actions of 1 girl enacting the role of lead news reporter, assuming…
The development of discourse markers in peer interaction
Codes, code-switching, and context: Style and footing in peer group bilingual play
According to Bernstein (A sociolinguistic approach to socialization; with some reference to educability, Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1972), middle-class parents transmit an elaborated code to their children that relies on verbal means, rather than paralinguistic devices or shared assumptions, to express meanings. Bernstein's ideas were used to argue that working-class and linguistically diverse children in the United States were socialized to use a res…
Preschool Girls' and Boys' Verbal Conflict Strategies in the United States and China
Although a wide body of research on sex-gender differences with White middle-class children in the United States has supported the separate worlds hypothesis (SWH), research with children from other cultures, including Taiwan, and Latino and African American children in the United States have challenged the view of girls' language as cooperative. In this study, we examine the linguistic strategies by which middle-class girls and boys from the Uni…
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool: Heteroglossia, frame-shifting, and language ideology
The current English-only educational climate in California presents children with polarizing discourses about national belonging (Bailey 2007). This study uses language socialization theory (e.g., Garret and Baquedano-López 2002) and Bakhtin’s (1981) concept of “heteroglossia” to examine how members of a peer group of linguistic minority children attending a bilingual Spanish-English preschool in California used bilingual practices among themselv…
Talking to Adults: The Contribution of Multiparty Discourse to Language Acquisition
Tactical Uses of Narratives in Nursery School Same-Sex Groups
Researchers have been interested in personal experience narratives as political activity (M. H. Goodwin, 1990a, 1990b) and as a medium of gender socialization (Ely, Gleason, & McCabe, 1996). To investigate whether American middle-class preschoolers utilize narratives to accomplish hierarchical forms of social organization in friendship groups and whether there are gender differences in this deployment, an ethnographic study of 4-year-olds in a nu…
Dialogic syntax and complement constructions in toddlers' peer interactions
Children start producing grammatically complex sentences during toddlerhood (Bloom et al. 1984; Diessel 2004). This study examines how toddlers use complement constructions as a communicative resource in peer interactions. The data come from an archival database, which consists of 500 hours of videorecordings of children's naturalistic interactions in a daycare center. All complement constructions produced by seven target children were identified…
Children's Gender Indexing in Language: From the Separate Worlds Hypothesis to Considerations of Culture, Context, and Power
(2001). Children's Gender Indexing in Language: From the Separate Worlds Hypothesis to Considerations of Culture, Context, and Power. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 1-13
Narrative Identity: Preschoolers' Self-Construction Through Narrative in Same-Sex Friendship Group Dramatic Play
Recently, researchers have been interested in narrative as a conversational point-making activity. Some of the features of narrative (e.g., its "objectivity", Benveniste, 1971) render it ideally suited for self-exploration and positioning of the self with respect to societal institutions (Polanyi, 1989), especially in the context of conversations within friendship groups (Coates, 1996). While past research has often focused on self-constructing a…
Enregistering Reading and Papá voices in peer bilingual play: Mexican heritage children's scaling practices at a bilingual U.S. preschool
Jointly constructed narratives in classrooms: Co-construction of friendship and community through language
Framing, footing, and language scaling practices in children's multilingual peer and sibling-kin group interactions: An introduction
Taza Qazaqsha” or Translanguaging? Exploring heritage language maintenance strategies among Central Asian Kazakh immigrant families in California
This study applies Conversation Analysis to examine heritage language maintenance among Central Asian Kazakh families in the United States. The study analyzes naturally occurring conversations between a parent and toddler drawn from two Kazakh immigrant families from China and Kazakhstan. While both parents aspire to teach their children Taza Qazaqsha (“pure/clean Kazakh language”), both integrate translanguaging into their daily interactions, de…
The evolution of meaning in context
Jointly constructed narratives in classrooms: Co-construction of friendship and community through language
Narrative Identity: Preschoolers' Self-Construction Through Narrative in Same-Sex Friendship Group Dramatic Play
Recently, researchers have been interested in narrative as a conversational point-making activity. Some of the features of narrative (e.g., its "objectivity", Benveniste, 1971) render it ideally suited for self-exploration and positioning of the self with respect to societal institutions (Polanyi, 1989), especially in the context of conversations within friendship groups (Coates, 1996). While past research has often focused on self-constructing a…
The development of discourse markers in peer interaction
The Contribution of Linguistics to Understanding Identity Construction in Holocaust Life Stories and Intertextual Narratives
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Tactical Uses of Narratives in Nursery School Same-Sex Groups
Researchers have been interested in personal experience narratives as political activity (M. H. Goodwin, 1990a, 1990b) and as a medium of gender socialization (Ely, Gleason, & McCabe, 1996). To investigate whether American middle-class preschoolers utilize narratives to accomplish hierarchical forms of social organization in friendship groups and whether there are gender differences in this deployment, an ethnographic study of 4-year-olds in a nu…
Preschoolers' communicative competence: Register shift in the marking of power in different contexts of friendship group talk
Research has focused on the acquisition of register knowledge, the process by which children choose the appropriate speech (e.g., request forms) for the circumstance. This study examines preschoolers' control act language as a device to index ranking in the friendship group. Are certain children consistently indexed as high ranking and does ranking fluctuate by context? A longitudinal ethnographic study of a preschool classroom was conducted. Chi…
Children's Gender Indexing in Language: From the Separate Worlds Hypothesis to Considerations of Culture, Context, and Power
(2001). Children's Gender Indexing in Language: From the Separate Worlds Hypothesis to Considerations of Culture, Context, and Power. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 1-13
Preschool Girls' and Boys' Verbal Conflict Strategies in the United States and China
Although a wide body of research on sex-gender differences with White middle-class children in the United States has supported the separate worlds hypothesis (SWH), research with children from other cultures, including Taiwan, and Latino and African American children in the United States have challenged the view of girls' language as cooperative. In this study, we examine the linguistic strategies by which middle-class girls and boys from the Uni…
Talking to Adults: The Contribution of Multiparty Discourse to Language Acquisition
Talk and Interaction Among Children and the Co-Construction of Peer Groups and Peer Culture
According to recent interpretive approaches to the study of children's socialization, meaning creation is an active process by which children playfully transform and actively resist cultural categories, and where language is viewed as social action that helps shape reality ( Gaskins et al. 1992 ). Four ways in which children's peer talk establishes and maintains peer culture are considered: (a) how children elaborate games and codes (and ritualiz…
Language and Culture: Socialization through Personal Story-Telling Practice
Commentaries| July 11 2005 Language and Culture: Socialization through Personal Story-Telling Practice Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health Amy Kyratzis Amy Kyratzis Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, Calif., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (2005) 48 (3): 146–150. https://doi.org/10.1159/000085517 Article …
Children Socializing Children: Practices for Negotiating the Social Order Among Peers
Using the Social Organizational Affordances of Pretend Play in American Preschool Girls' Interactions
Goodwin (1990, 1993) found that preadolescent girls could use the social organizational affordances of pretend play to enact hierarchical forms of social organization among themselves. This study examines how members of a preschool friendship group of 3 girls utilize the social organizational affordances of news reporter and Prince-Princess play. Asymmetry was created through the actions of 1 girl enacting the role of lead news reporter, assuming…
Format Tying and the Acquisition of Syntax in Toddlers’ Peer Interactions
Codes, code-switching, and context: Style and footing in peer group bilingual play
According to Bernstein (A sociolinguistic approach to socialization; with some reference to educability, Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1972), middle-class parents transmit an elaborated code to their children that relies on verbal means, rather than paralinguistic devices or shared assumptions, to express meanings. Bernstein's ideas were used to argue that working-class and linguistically diverse children in the United States were socialized to use a res…
Validating justifications in preschool girls' and boys' friendship group talk: Implications for linguistic and socio-cognitive development
Children are believed to construct their causal theories through talk and interaction, but with the exception of a few studies, little or nothing is known about how young children justify and build theories of the world together with same-age peers through naturally occurring interaction, Children's sensitivity to when a pair or group of interlocutors who interact frequently together feel that a justification is needed, is an index of developing …
Using directives to construct egalitarian or hierarchical social organization: Turkish middle-class preschool girls’ socialization about gender, affect, and context in peer group conversations
Prior research by M. H. Goodwin (1990) found that preadolescent African-American girls socialized one another towards ‘egalitarian’ forms of social organization in task activities, but preferred forms that differentiated group members in other contexts. The present study examines how a friendship group of middle-class Turkish girls followed ethnographically (through videorecording of spontaneous free play conversations in their preschool classroo…
Sources of Coherence in the Life Stories of Cambodian American Women at the University
This article uses a life story framework (Linde, 1993 Linde, C. 1993. Life stories: The creation of coherence, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. [Google Scholar]) to examine the educational experiences of Cambodian American women college students. The literature suggests that Cambodian American female students experience particular educational challenges related to the gendered expectations of their cultural group. Two main themes emerged fr…
Dialogic syntax and complement constructions in toddlers' peer interactions
Children start producing grammatically complex sentences during toddlerhood (Bloom et al. 1984; Diessel 2004). This study examines how toddlers use complement constructions as a communicative resource in peer interactions. The data come from an archival database, which consists of 500 hours of videorecordings of children's naturalistic interactions in a daycare center. All complement constructions produced by seven target children were identified…
Latina girls’ peer play interactions in a bilingual Spanish-English U.S. preschool: Heteroglossia, frame-shifting, and language ideology
The current English-only educational climate in California presents children with polarizing discourses about national belonging (Bailey 2007). This study uses language socialization theory (e.g., Garret and Baquedano-López 2002) and Bakhtin’s (1981) concept of “heteroglossia” to examine how members of a peer group of linguistic minority children attending a bilingual Spanish-English preschool in California used bilingual practices among themselv…
Language Socialization in Children’s Peer and Sibling-Kin Group Interactions
Language Socialization in Children’s Peer and Sibling-Kin Group Interactions
Moral order among members of a friendship group of preschool boys
The making of assessment descriptions can be key processes in children’s negotiations of the social and moral orders of their peer groups. This paper examines how a friendship group of preschool boys followed through a year-long video-ethnography construct their local social and moral order, through use of a particular interactional resource, membership categorizations. A collection of clips of the boys’ use of membership categorizations was crea…
Enregistering Reading and Papá voices in peer bilingual play: Mexican heritage children's scaling practices at a bilingual U.S. preschool
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