This article reviews the conflict literature, first examining the causes of conflict, its core
process, and its effects. Subsequently, we probe into conflict escalation (and de-escalation) …

Despite its long history as an important concept in sociological theory, there have been few
studies of children's peer culture. By peer culture, we mean a stable set of activities or …

This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first
appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is …

The Sixth Edition of William A. Corsaro and Judson G. Everitt′ s groundbreaking text
discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspective—providing in-depth …

The study of teenagers in the classroom, and how they interact with one another and their
teachers, can tell us a great deal about late-modern society. In this revealing account, Ben …

The purpose of this paper is to draw on recent studies of bilingualism and emotions to argue
for three types of modifications to the current models of the bilingual lexicon. The first …

▪ Abstract According to recent interpretive approaches to the study of children's socialization,
meaning creation is an active process by which children playfully transform and actively …

Mediation is an institutional interactional system in which disputing parties discuss and
resolve differences with the help of a third party. Conflicts can be resolved with minimal …

This Handbook stands as the premier scholarly resource for Language and Social
Interaction (LSI) subject matter and research, giving visibility and definition to this area of …

INTRODUCTION/tor ascribes and is ascribed multiple discursive and social identities which,
in turn, can invoke multiple faces. Instead of devising a parsimonious model of facework or …