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'It is not often that you are gripped by an academic book. I read Janet Maybin's book through in almost one reading, gripped by the range of insights she offers into children's off-record talk, her judicious use of social and cultural theory, her many new insights into the significance of styling and voicing emotion and evaluation in everyday dialogue, her careful building of new ways of talking about and describing talk among children. This is a highly significant contribution to language in education, to our understandings of language use and multiple but hitherto unnoticed aspects of the ways knowledge is constructed. It is a book that is likely to refocus educational research for many years to come, shifting the research landscape to the importance of talk outside the classroom for our understanding of 'official' talk inside the classroom. It is a book that is written in a lively and engaging style. In fact, it is a book that is not just gripping; it is genuinely groundbreaking.' - Ron Carter, Professor of Modern English Language, Nottingham University, UK
'Most impressive are the ways in which the work brings to life hybridity, emotion, and moral evaluation...Children's Voices serves as an important exemplar of the artful ways young people fashion lives and learning through dialogue, and of the compelling need for ethnographers, educators and linguists to find equally artful ways to render their accounts of language and learning.' - Deborah Hicks, Professorof Education and Women's Studies at Duke University, North Carolina, USA
'This book will be a valuable resource for educational researchers as well as teachers seeking to understand the importance of informal talk and the complexities of different forms of children's talk across official and unofficial school spaces and throughout the school day.' - Dennis Kwek, Language and Education, 22:2, 2008
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Book Title: Children's Voices
Book Subtitle: Talk, Knowledge and Identity
Authors: Janet Maybin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230511958
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3330-0Published: 01 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3331-7Published: 01 November 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51195-8Published: 01 November 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 207
Topics: Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Child and School Psychology, Educational Psychology