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Voicing control

"A child resource for "growing a head taller

Bibliographic Data

ID4474890
AuthorsH Z Waring (0000-0002-0652-568X, Teachers College , Columbia University , 525 W. 120 Street, Box 66 , New York , NY 10027 , USA, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume2019
Issue231
Pages147-169
Publication date2019-11-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/sem-2018-0011
OpenAlexW2980100875
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited36

Dinner times provide rich opportunities for overt and covert socialization. Drawing upon a larger corpus of 35 video-recorded family meals involving the three-year-old Zoe and her parents, this conversation analytic study describes how Zoe displays such agency through the practice of "voicing control" - momentarily sounding and acting like an adult by performing a range of controlling acts such as leading, instructing, advising, assessing, and mediating. I argue that by playing with such activities bound to the category of a higher position than hers, the child manages to grow "a head taller" in the Vygotskyan sense. The findings contribute to the budding literature on documenting socialization in naturalistic settings with a specific focus on the child's role in such socialization

Agency (philosophy) · Conversation · Covert · Head (geology) · Linguistics · Socialization · Sociology · Voice · Communication · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works5
Citations per year0,83
Citation span2020 - 2025 (6)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 4

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