Conversational Support for Assertives in Young Children

Autor/inn/en	Marcos, Haydee; Rabain-Jamin, Jacqueline
Titel	Conversational Support for Assertives in Young Children
Quelle	In: Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 40 (2005) 2, S.145-169 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0163-853X
DOI	10.1207/s15326950dp4002_3
Schlagwörter	Semantics; Young Children; Speech Acts; Mothers; Adolescents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; Frühe Kindheit; Sprechakt; Mother; Mutter; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher
Abstract	The goal of this study was to find out how, in young children, conversations with an adult contribute to establishing a shared expression of beliefs through assertive speech acts. Children age 22 months were observed in a picture-book situation with their mother. On the basis of work on early semantic relations, 3 categories of assertives were considered: (a) assertives related to existence, presence, absence, and recurrence; (b) assertives related to action; and (c) assertives related to locative action, attribution, locative state, state, and possession. The results show how mothers contribute to the elaboration of assertives, particularly the ones that might seem more cognitively and linguistically difficult for 22-month-old children. Assertives in the existence category were produced mostly in 1 speech turn and without maternal support. In contrast, assertives of state, possession, and so on, are the most frequently produced in 2 speech turns and with maternal support. When interdiscursive links in mother-child dialogues were taken into account, evidence of some transitional phenomena in the step-by-step, joint elaboration of assertive acts was found. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10