Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Editor and Book Reviews Editor: John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University, Canada)
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Volume: 24 Number: 1 Page: 90–101
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Power Relationships, Interactional Dominance and Manipulation Strategies in Group Conversations of Turkish-Danish Children
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Lian Malai Madsen
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This paper deals with interactional dominance and power wielding in bilingual conversation among school children. I find that different pragmatic strategies are used by bilingual children as a mean of negotiating
power relationships and identities but that the social relations and the power bases brought into the conversations by the interactants make the outcomes of the negotiations predictable. Furthermore, I
have found differences related to gender in the use of interactive dominance strategies and the handling of conflicts. I conclude that the traditional view of gender as fixed social categories does not
fit my data and that it is more appropriate to regard gender as a linguistic and social construction.
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