Talk and Social Interaction in the Playground (Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis)

Detailed observational studies of children's everyday play and social interactions are rare in the social scientific literature. Using an ethnomethodological approach, "Talk and Social Interaction in the Playground" offers a thorough and fine-grained analysis of the methods and practices used by a group of children to generate and organize a particular game. The book offers rich insight into the interactional resources used by children to produce and make sense of social action, and makes a significant and substantial contribution to the study of talk-in-interaction, and to studies of children's play, competencies, and social interaction.As well as appealing to scholars of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book will be of interest to researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, including developmental and social psychology, education, linguistics, sociology and child studies more generally.