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Gender Construction in Children's Interactions

A Cultural Perspective. A Special Issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction

Gender Construction in Children's Interactions

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This special issue examines gender construction by children in some of its rich cultural and contextual complexity and in some of its interactions with power. The first two articles are about preschool children's language. One examines preschoolers' socialization into Japanese--a language in which gender marking is inescapable, and the other compares Mandarin-speaking preschoolers' language in Mainland China with that of English-speaking preschoolers in the United States. Dealing with middle-school aged children, the next two articles deal with the influence of expertise and examine talk within a mixed-sex group of Latino children doing groupwork. The issue concludes with an epilogue commenting on the special issue and critically examining the problem of gender indexing.

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Volume 34, Number 1, 2000

Contents: A. Kyratzis, Children's Gender Indexing in Language: From the Separate Worlds Hypothesis to Considerations of Culture, Context, and Power. K. Nakamura, Gender and Language in Japanese Preschool Children. A. Kyratzis, J. Guo, Preschool Girls' and Boys' Verbal Conflict Strategies in the United States and China. M.H. Goodwin, Organizing Participation in Cross-Sex Jump Rope: Situating Gender Differences Within Longitudinal Studies of Activities. J. Cook-Gumperz, M. Szymanski, Classroom "Families": Cooperating or Competing--Girls' and Boys' Interactional Styles in a Bilingual Classroom. S. Ervin-Tripp, The Place of Gender in Developmental Pragmatics: Cultural Factors.

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