Children’s embodied and linguistic organization of peer inclusion and exclusion

Author Biography

• Polly Björk-Willén

  Polly Björk-Willén, associate professor emerita, was assistant professor at Linköping University, and (part-time) at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interest is in interactional studies in preschool, investigating mundane activities with special focus on children’s (multi)language use and socialization. Other areas of interest are ethnicity, cultural heritage, language policy and children’s computer use. Based on ethnomethodology and multimodality, her analyses of nonverbal and verbal interaction strive to understand children’s perspective when making meaning.