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Janet Maybin: Children's Voices: Talk, Knowledge and Identity.

Janet Maybin: Children's Voices: Talk, Knowledge and Identity. Applied Linguistics 29/1: 155–167  Oxford University Press 2008 REVIEWS Janet Maybin: CHILDREN’S VOICES: TALK, KNOWLEDGE AND IDENTITY. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Janet Maybin’s exploration of children’s talk is an outstanding example of the value of exploring backstage talk, the encounters that take place outside conventional sites of engagement. Although classroom exchanges are not ignored, the focus of the book is on how 10–12 year-old children talk away from adults, and specifically how they construct their knowledge and identity at a key developmental point in their lives. It draws on a range of analytical constructs to explore the fluidity and complexity of children’s verbal practices, and the title is well-chosen: at its heart are voices, individually and collaboratively produced, reproduced, appropriated and creatively exploited in the shared construction of an alternative social world. Chapter 1 of the book offers a sensitive and involving picture of the setting and the researcher’s field relations, touching on some of the dilemmas of researcher positioning where acceptance by children and support from teachers must sometimes be negotiated in the context of conflict between the two. Drawing on the work of Bahktin, the author also provides a carefully developed case for her analytical orientation, establishing http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Applied Linguistics Oxford University Press

Janet Maybin: Children's Voices: Talk, Knowledge and Identity.

Richards, Keith
Applied Linguistics , Volume 29 (1) – Mar 1, 2008
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Oxford University Press
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© Oxford University Press 2008
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Applied Linguistics 29/1: 155–167  Oxford University Press 2008 REVIEWS Janet Maybin: CHILDREN’S VOICES: TALK, KNOWLEDGE AND IDENTITY. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Janet Maybin’s exploration of children’s talk is an outstanding example of the value of exploring backstage talk, the encounters that take place outside conventional sites of engagement. Although classroom exchanges are not ignored, the focus of the book is on how 10–12 year-old children talk away from adults, and specifically how they construct their knowledge and identity at a key developmental point in their lives. It draws on a range of analytical constructs to explore the fluidity and complexity of children’s verbal practices, and the title is well-chosen: at its heart are voices, individually and collaboratively produced, reproduced, appropriated and creatively exploited in the shared construction of an alternative social world. Chapter 1 of the book offers a sensitive and involving picture of the setting and the researcher’s field relations, touching on some of the dilemmas of researcher positioning where acceptance by children and support from teachers must sometimes be negotiated in the context of conflict between the two. Drawing on the work of Bahktin, the author also provides a carefully developed case for her analytical orientation, establishing

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Published: Mar 1, 2008

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