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TY - JOUR
T1 - Co-constructing family identities through young children’s telephone-mediated narrative exchanges
AU - Cameron, Catherine Ann
AU - Gillen, Julia
N1 - This is a postprint version of the following article: Cameron, C.A. & Gillen, J. (2013) Coconstructing family identities through young children’s telephone-mediated narrative exchanges. First Language 33 (3) 246-267, first published on fla.sagepub.com doi:10.1177/0142723713487611 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with SAGE Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
PY - 2013/6
Y1 - 2013/6
N2 - We explore here telephone interactions between young children and adult family members as contributing insights to the co-construction of identities within both the nuclear and the extended family. We deploy methods of linguistic ethnography to enrich the scope of interpreting our data beyond textual analysis. Our premise was that intimate relatives have knowledgeable appreciation of their child’s affective and cognitive worlds that they can call upon to enhance emerging language use and narrative productions, even in distanced communications. Talking over the telephone has the potential to scaffold children’s skills at offering clear, cohesive communications, and elaborated narratives. Examination of the corpora of four preschool children in interaction with a family member on the telephone showed them to employ extensive expressive power to negotiate considerable communicative space in having both emotional and cognitive needs met; identities are co-constructed as stories about persons and experiences are shared.
AB - We explore here telephone interactions between young children and adult family members as contributing insights to the co-construction of identities within both the nuclear and the extended family. We deploy methods of linguistic ethnography to enrich the scope of interpreting our data beyond textual analysis. Our premise was that intimate relatives have knowledgeable appreciation of their child’s affective and cognitive worlds that they can call upon to enhance emerging language use and narrative productions, even in distanced communications. Talking over the telephone has the potential to scaffold children’s skills at offering clear, cohesive communications, and elaborated narratives. Examination of the corpora of four preschool children in interaction with a family member on the telephone showed them to employ extensive expressive power to negotiate considerable communicative space in having both emotional and cognitive needs met; identities are co-constructed as stories about persons and experiences are shared.
KW - families
KW - identity
KW - linguistic ethnography
KW - MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS
KW - telephone discourse
KW - YOUNG CHILDRENS DEVELOPMENT
U2 - 10.1177/0142723713487611
DO - 10.1177/0142723713487611
M3 - Journal article
VL - 33
SP - 246
EP - 267
JO - First Language
JF - First Language
SN - 0142-7237
IS - 3
ER -