Role-play and language socialization among bilingual Korean children in the United States

Seongwon Yun
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Seongwon Yun: Oklahoma State University, USA, seongwon.yun@okstate.edu

Simulation & Gaming, 2008, vol. 39, issue 2, 240-252

Abstract: This article examines children's role-play within the framework of language socialization, as well as the relations between (a) utterances made by young bilingual Korean children within the role-play frame and (b) metacommunicative utterances about the play. It analyzes the language features that children use to set up the context of role-play and explores the relationships of the children who participate in the process of role-play socialization. Data analysis includes thematically and pragmatically related sequences of naturally occurring interactions during lunch time and play time in a Korean Baptist church in the United States and play time at some of the children's homes. Results indicate that bilingual children socialize themselves and jointly construct their identities through role-play in the communities of practice using specific features of language such as metacommunicative verbs, deictics, and code-switching.

Keywords: code-switching; communities of practice; deictics; language socialization; metacommunication; role-play (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/1046878107310614

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