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“Don't go on my property!”: A case study of transactions of user rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2009

Rhianon Allen
Rhianon Allen
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Department of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Abstract

Two hours of conversation among three children were examined for oral disputes concerning use of beds in their bedroom. Examination of transcript segments revealed that the children signaled a social order governing use of property and objects. The children were found to negotiate such use on an ongoing basis, and the form and content of the disputes differed dramatically according to whether the beds were being claimed for the purpose of play or sleep. The conversations reflected the ongoing construction and negotiation of social representations, within shared frames or finite provinces of meaning, for use of space and objects. (Ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, property, ownership)

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Research Article
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Language in Society , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 1995 , pp. 349 - 372
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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