The telling or the tale? Narratives and gender in adolescent friendship networks

The paper analyses the narratives told between adolescent friends, recorded in single-sex friendship groups with a fieldworker. It confirms the importance of narratives in the construction of friendship and, specifically, in the interpretation of past experience according to peer group norms. The link between the self and others is different in the narratives told by the male friends and the female friends. The boys establish a sense of group identity through the joint activity of ‘telling’, whilst for the girls the links are between individual selves, constructed through their tales. Key figures in the friendship groups take the lead in demonstrating how events are interpreted. The same speaker uses styles that could be labelled ‘competitive’ and styles that could be labelled ‘cooperative’, depending on the interactional context.     

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Gregory Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.). Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in Honor of William Labov .
Anna Duszak. Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse .
Barbara Johnstone. The Linguistic Individual: Self-expression in Language and Linguistics .
Alessandro Duranti. Linguistic Anthropology . William A. Foley. Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction .     

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Books reviewed: Stephen Whitehead and Roy Moodley (eds), Transforming Managers: Gendering Change in the Public Sector Julia O'Connell Davidson, Prostitution, Power and Freedom Su Maddock, Challenging Women Kathleen Weiler and Sue Middleton (eds), Telling Women's Lives Eileen Drew, Ruth Emerek and Evelyn Mahon, Women, Work and the Family in Europe Ian Proctor and Maureen Padfield, Young Adult Women, Work and Family     

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Books reviewed: L.A. Reese and K.E. Lindenberg, Implementing Sexual Harassment Policy: Challenges for the Public Sector Workplace Amy Flowers, The Fantasy Factory: An Insider's View of the Phone Sex Industry Helinä Melkas and Richard Anker, Gender Equality and Occupational Segregation in Nordic Labour Markets John Denton, Organisational Learning and Effectiveness Carol Lee Bacchi, Women, Policy and Politics     

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Books reviewed: Ann Brooks and Alison Mackinnon (eds.), Gender and the Restructured University Deborah Cameron, Good to Talk? Living and Working in a Communication Culture Jody Miller, One of the Guys: Girls, Gangs and Gender David D. Hall(ed.), Witch–hunting in Seventeenth–century New England: A Documentary History 1638–1693 Carla Freeman, High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean     

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Book reviews: Rosemary Crompton (ed), Restructuring Gender Relations and Employment: The Decline of the Male Breadwinner Susan Eisenberg, We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working in Construction Fiona M. Wilson, Organizational Behaviour: A Critical Introduction Rohan Collier, Equality in Managing Service Delivery Joyce K. Fletcher, Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power and Relational Practice at Work Miriam Glucksmann, Cottons and Casuals : The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space     

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Critical appraisal of research studies forms a central role within the application and uptake of evidence‐based approaches within health and social care. While there are established checklists for evaluating quantitative research, this is not the case for qualitative research. This article outlines the process of developing an evaluative tool for qualitative studies, reflecting the uniqueness of the associated paradigm, and illustrates its use by reference to three qualitative research papers appraised within a systematic review of community‐based rehabilitation services. At its centre are concerns with the context of the study and the way the data are collected and analysed. Use of such an evaluative template opens the way for the quality of qualitative research to be judged in a systematic manner and for qualitative research to take its rightful place within debates over what works, where, when and how within health and social care policy and practice.     

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Romaine, Suzanne. Communicating Gender
Chouliaraki, Lilie and Fairclough, Norman. Discourse in Late Modernity: Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis
Fishman, Joshua A. (ed.). Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity
Kontra, Miklo´s; Phillipson, Robert; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove and Va´rady, Tibor (eds.). Language: A Right and a Resource. Approaches to Linguistic Human Rights
Foulkes, Paul and Docherty, Gerard (eds.). Urban Voices. Accent Studies in the British Isles
Baron, Naomi S. Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It's Heading     

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Books reviewed: Monica Heller, Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography Philip Baker and John Eversley, (eds.) Multilingual Capital. The Languages of London's Schoolchildren and their Relevance to Economic, Social and Educational Policies Ralph Penny, Variation and Change in Spanish Maria Pilar Navarro Errasti, Rosa Lores Sanz, Silvia Murillo Ornat and Carmina Buesa Gomez, (eds.) Transcultural Communication: Pragmalinguistic Aspects Deborah Cameron, Good to Talk? Living and Working in Communication Culture Susan Ehrlich, Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent Mikko Lehtonen, The Cultural Analysis of Texts     

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Rampton, Ben, Crossing: Language and Ethnicity among Adolescents
Drechsel, Emanuel J., Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin
Hensel, Chase, Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
Silverman, David, Discourses of Counselling: HIV Counselling as Social Interaction
Goebl, Hans; Nelde, Peter H.; Starý, Zdeněk and Wölck, Wolfgang (eds), Kontaktlinguistik, Contact Linguistics, Linguistique de contact
Baxter, Leslie A. and Montgomery, Barbara M., Relating: Dialogues and Dialectics
Lanstyák, István and Szabómihály, Gizella, Magyar nyelvhasználat – iskola – kétnyelvüség [Hungarian language use, schools and bilingualism]
Zentella, Ana Celia, Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York
Fairclough, Norman, Media Discourse     

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Books reviewed:
Susan Ehrlich, Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent
Deborah Cameron, Working with Spoken Discourse
Stefan Titscher, Michael Meyer, Ruth Wodak and Eva Vetter, Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis
Linda A. Wood and Rolf O. Kroger, Doing Discourse Analysis: Methods for Studying Action in Talk and Text
Srikant Sarangi and Celia Roberts (eds.), Talk, Work and Institutional Order: Discourse in Medical, Mediation and Management Settings
Ulrich Ammon (ed.), The Dominance of English as a Language of Science: Effects on Other Languages and Language Communities
Alexandra Jaffe, Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica
Niloofar Haeri, The Sociolinguistic Market of Cairo: Gender, Class and Education
Anita Y. K. Poon, Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong: Policy and Practice
Tariq Rahman, Language, Education and Culture
Dariusz Galasinski, The Language of Deception: A Discourse Analytical Study
Clifford Hill and Eric Larsen, Children and Reading Tests
Fern L. Johnson, Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States
Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin (eds.), The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader     

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Project on Social History Curriculum. Peter N. Stearns and Linda W. Rosenzweig, eds., six volumes. Pittsburgh, Penn.: Carnegie-Mellon University, 1982, 1502 pp., 108 transparencies. Reviewed by Mildred Alpern.

Using Local History in the Classroom. Fay D. Metcalf and Matthew T. Downey. Nashville, Tennessee: The American Association for State and Local History, 1982, 284 pp. Reviewed by Gerald A. Danzer.     

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Book Reviewed in this article. The Volume and Dynamics of International Migation and Transnational Social Spaces. By Thomas Faist. Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth‐Century Atlantic Economy. By Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Migration and the Origins of the Englth Atlantic WorLd. By Alison Games. Immigration et intkgration: I'état des savoirs. Edited by Philippe Dewitte. Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mas Migratin to North America. By Marianne S. Wokeck. Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France. By Miriam Feldblum. Fences and Neighbors: The Political Geography ofrmmigration Control. By Jeannette Money. Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration and the Politics of Places. By James G. Gimpel. Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the US. and Their Homeland. By Yossi Shain. The Kctorian Spinster and Colonial Emigration: Contested Subjects. By Rita S. Kranidis. Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation State. By Robert S. Chang. Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeks from the Great Migration to the Great Depression. By Douglas Monroy. Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angela Police Department, 1900–1945. By Edward J. Escobar. Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culmre. By Robert G. Lee. Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities. By Fenggang Yang. If Theu, Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion. By George Anthony Peffer. Korean Immigrants and The Challenge of Adustment. By Moon H. Jo. Crosscurrents: West Indian Immigrants and Race. By Milton Vickerman. The Marginal Nation: Transborzkr Migration From Bangladsh To West Bengal. By Ranabir Sammadar. Khmer American: Identity and Moral Education in a Diasporic Community. By Nancy J. Smith‐Hefner. Helping Out: Children's Labor in Ethnic Businesses. By Miri Song. Irish Immigrants in Modern Britain, 1750–1922. By Donald M. MacRaild. The Germans in the American Civil War. By Wilhelm Kaufmann.     

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