The hidden life of girls: games of stance, status, and exclusion

List of Figures and Tables. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. 2. Multimodality, Conflict, and Rationality in Girls' Games. 3. Social Dimensions of a Popular Girls' Clique. 4. Social Organization, Opposition, and Directives in the Game of Jump Rope. 5. Language Practices for Indexing Social Status: Stories, Descriptions, Brags, and Comparisons. 6. Stance and Structure in Assessment and Gossip Activity. 7. Constructing Social Difference...