Habits of the hearth: Children's bedtime routines as relational work

Text and Talk

Volumn 26, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 493-514

  Sirota, Karen Gainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Closing routines; Conversation analysis; Family communication; Language socialization; Relational work

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247367668     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2006.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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