Nicola Nasi

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicola Nasi is involved.

Title

Children’s Peer Cultures in Dialogue: Participation, hierarchy, and social identity in diverse schools

Nicola Nasi

Contemporary schools are enlivened by a multitude of children with rather disparate linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. These children spend most of their school hours in interaction with other children, engaging in multifarious activities (conflict, gossip, play, humor,… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 34] 2024. x, 202 pp.

Articles

Nasi, Nicola 2023 Morality and polyphony in peer dialogues: Children’s moral practices in heterogeneous classrooms (Inter)Cultural Dialogues, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 453–474 | Article

This study investigates children’s dialogic negotiation of the moral order of the classroom in a heterogeneous peer group. Drawing from video-ethnographic research in two primary schools in Italy, the study adopts a CA-informed approach to analyze 9- to 10-year-old children’s dialogic… read more

Nasi, Nicola 2022 Practices of inclusion/exclusion in and through classroom dialogue: Children’s peer socialization to institutional norms of literacy and language use Towards Culture(s) of Dialogue: Communicating Unity and Diversity through Language and Discourse, Okulska, Urszula, Grzegorz Kowalski and Urszula Topczewska (eds.), pp. 306–331 | Article

The paper explores non-native children’s peer socialization to norms of literacy and appropriate language use in the classroom. Drawing on ethnographic research in a primary school in northern Italy, this study adopts a CA-informed approach to analyze an Italian L2 class attended by children… read more

Caronia, Letizia and Nicola Nasi 2021 Chapter 5. Language, interaction, and culture at school: An overview Language and Social Interaction at Home and School, Caronia, Letizia (ed.), pp. 193–220 | Chapter

The chapter provides an overview of selected studies that, from the mid-twentieth century, have variously dealt with classroom language, interaction, and culture. Moving from the recognition that schools represent (at least in western societies) a major site for children’s socialization into the… read more