Childly Language: Children, language and the

By using a combination of data about children and data produced by children,Childly Languagedemonstrates the connections between the distribution of power in the social world, children's own use of language, and the language we use about children.

Alison Sealey is a Lecturer in English Studies at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick.

Author's Acknowledgements

viii

Publisher's Acknowledgements

ix

Part I Discourses of Childhood

1

(72)

Introduction to Part I

3

(7)

Children in the News (1): Threatened, Protected, Active

10

(19)

Introduction

10

(3)

Children in danger

13

(2)

Children as beneficiaries

15

(3)

Children as social actors

18

(8)

Summary and conclusions

26

(3)

Children in the News (2): The Idea of the Child

29

(16)

Introduction

29

(1)

Growth, development and change

30

(3)

Children as a social presence

33

(8)

The idea of childhood

41

(2)

Summary and conclusions

43

(2)

Children in the English Language

45

(28)

Introduction

45

(1)

Collocations in the British National Corpus

45

(11)

The patterns realized in texts

56

(5)

An alternative perspective: children's literature

61

(8)

Summary and conclusions

69

(4)

Part II Perspectives on Children, Language and the Social World

73

(54)

Introduction to Part II

75

(4)

Perspectives on Researching Children and Language

79

(25)

Introduction

79

(1)

Children's language acquisition and development

79

(6)

Language in children's learning

85

(8)

Language in childhood culture

93

(8)

Summary and conclusions

101

(3)

Perspectives on Language, Identity and the Social World

104

(23)

Introduction

104

(1)

The abilities of social actors

105

(6)

Structure, and the limits on actors' freedom

111

(7)

The relations between domains

118

(1)

Identity: language, structure and agency

119

(4)

Summary and conclusions

123

(4)

Part III Children's Talk

127

(82)

Introduction to Part III

129

(6)

The Social Status of `Child' in Informal Talk

135

(25)

Introduction

135

(1)

Children's interactions and the idea of `play'

136

(8)

Requests, directives and being a child

144

(13)

Summary and conclusions

157

(3)

Blurred Boundaries: Speaking to Children, Speaking as a Child

160

(24)

Introduction

160

(1)

Adult speakers using childly language

161

(10)

Adult speakers addressed as children

171

(8)

Choosing childly language

179

(3)

Summary and conclusions

182

(2)

Children's Negotiations of the Social World

184

(25)

Introduction

184

(1)

Emma's win on the lottery

185

(3)

Children talking about growth and change

188

(7)

Negotiating constraints

195

(3)

Speaking as a child

198

(2)

Invoking the wider world

200

(3)

Whose language?

203

(4)

Summary and conclusions

207

(2)

Part IV

209

(7)

Conclusions and Implications

211

(5)

The idea of the child and the realities of childhood

211

(1)

Children, adults and the social domains

212

(1)

Children, language and research

213

(1)

Suggestions for future research

214

(2)

References

216

(12)

Index

228

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