The Relevance of Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Children's Peer Negotiations

The Handbook of Language and Gender

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 229-251

  Goodwin, Marjorie Harness ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Gender; Language; Social knowledge; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948968784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756942.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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