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The lore and law of the playground
journal contribution
posted on 2015-06-19, 08:08 authored by Carly Butler, Amanda BatemanThe pioneering work of the Opies has been an inspiration to many people interested in
children’s play and games, academics and non-academics alike. Their books provide
insightful details of how children interact and co-produce games through their rule-making during everyday play, providing an awareness of the governance of social activities in the playground. In this article, we explore the link between the work of the Opies and ethnomethodological and conversation analytic studies by identifying aspects of young children’s games and rules that have been eloquently explored in both domains. The thoughtful move to make the recordings of Iona Opie’s conversations with children about their games and associated rules available is fully utilised here, as excerpts are transcribed and analysed using conversation analysis. In so doing, we demonstrate how conversation analysis can complement and extend the Opies’ significant work on children’s rule-making in play.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
International Journal of PlayVolume
3Issue
3Pages
235 - 250Citation
BUTLER, C.W. and BATEMAN, A., 2014. The lore and law of the playground. International Journal of Play, 3 (3), pp. 235 - 250Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Play on 17 Dec 2014, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21594937.2014.976030Publisher version
Language
- en