Conversational actions and category relations: An analysis of a children's argument

Discourse Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-48

  Hester, Sally ^a   Hester, Stephen ^b   Stokoe, Elizabeth ^c  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children's argument; Children's culture; Conversation analysis; Ethnomethodology; Membership categorization analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649267182     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445609347233     Document Type: Article

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