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- Title
The Serious Side of Jump Rope.
- Authors
Goodwin, Marjorie Harness
- Abstract
Focuses on the texts of conversational activities occurring in the course of a game of jump rope, rather than upon its rhymes or social context. Different opinions concerning the rules of the game of jump rope developed throughout its course; Background for understanding how participants in jump rope make bids for particular ways of structuring the activity and argue about specific happenings within it; Comparison of the processes of negotiation within jump rope with disputing that occurs within other domains.
- Subjects
CONVERSATION; JUMP ropes; JUMPING rope; PLAY; NEGOTIATION; RECREATION; ORAL communication
- Publication
Journal of American Folklore, 1985, Vol 98, Issue 389, p315
- ISSN
0021-8715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/539938