Citation

Reynolds JF. J. Ling. Anthropol. 2008; 18(1): 82-107.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1548-1395.2008.00005.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article examines family and peer practices of socialization that illuminate a culture specific social ontology of intentions (Duranti 2006). An interpretive approach to the study of children's language socialization and peer talk is adopted to analyze how local beliefs concerning children's socialization and development are afforded within multiparty participation frameworks that involve teasing and shaming routines. These routines are powerful discursive strategies in the everyday negotiation and co-construction of peer politics and kin group social relationships. Data include ethnographic observational and naturally occurring video-recorded quotidian interactions collected March 1998–March 1999 in San Antonio Aguas Calientes, a highland Guatemala Kaqchikel Maya town. [responsibility, intentionality, language socialization, peer talk-in-interaction]