Opening up gift-openings: Birthday parties as situated activity systems

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Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 565-593

  Good, Jeffrey S ^a   Beach, Wayne A ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c School of Medicine

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gift opening; Intense focus clusters; Participation frameworks; Prompting.; Response cries; Summons answer

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EID: 34248693694     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.2005.25.5.565     Document Type: Article

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