Calibrating joint attention and affective stances in young children's peer interactions

Laughter, excitement, and suspense in preschool : Choreographing emotional stances as a multiparty achievement

“…Studies I and II (Strid & Cekaite, 2021;Strid & Cekaite, 2022) show how children summon their peers' attention and calibrate joint peer laughter. They show that children rely on a range of verbal and embodied practices to summon their peer's attention and invite their affiliation with an affective stance of joy, excitement, or fun.…”

Shaping participation

“…Throughout fieldwork for this dissertation, it became clear that the majority of participant constellations in ECEC contexts is of multiparty nature. During a day at preschool, children are mainly surrounded by others, requiring them to navigate and position themselves in emerging action with peers and teachers as interaction-partners (Pursi, 2019;Strid & Cekaite, 2022). For this reason, studies in child interaction in ECEC contexts embracing the language socialization paradigm often focus on interactional trajectories that unfold either between children and teachers or in peer interaction.…”