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- Title
Participation Structure as Cultural Schema: Examples From a Navajo Preschool.
- Authors
Field, Margaret
- Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between micro and macro perspectives on the organization of participation structure, and considers how both perspectives can be useful to the ethnographer of interaction. It suggests that understandings of the organization of participation may be considered forms of tacit knowledge, or cultural schemas, which may differ cross-culturally Examples are drawn from a study of Navajo preschool, and supported by a substantial body of classroom ethnography in other Native Amnerican communities. I argue that participation Structure at the macro level of speech event is largely negotiated through and dependent upon cultural schemnas for participation structure at the micro level of interaction.
- Subjects
PARTICIPATION; SPEECH acts (Linguistics); PRESCHOOL children; CROSS-cultural differences; SCHEMAS (Psychology); TACIT knowledge; NAVAJO (North American people)
- Publication
Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1998, Vol 9, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
1050-4273
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5070/l492005275