Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-316) and indexes.
Contents:
Subject index. Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 8. Introduction -- 2. Multimodality, conflict, and rationality in girls' games -- 3. Social dimensions of a popular girls' clique -- 4. Social organization, opposition, and directives in the game of jump rope -- 5. Language practices for indexing social status : stories, descriptions, brags, and comparisons -- 6. Stance and structure in assessment and gossip activity -- 7. Constructing social difference and exclusion in girls' groups -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix A : Transcription symbols -- Appendix B : Jump rope rhymes -- Notes -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.
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