Repetition and joking in children's second language conversations: Playful recyclings in an immersion classroom

Discourse Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-392

  Cekaite, Asta ^a   Aronsson, Karin ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

children's early L2 conversations; joking events; metapragmatic play; repetition; subversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993728396     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445604044295     Document Type: Article

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