'I like Barney': Preschoolers' Spontaneous Conversational Initiations With Peers  

Oleh:

O'Neill, Daniela K. ; Main, Rebecca M. ; Ziemski, Renata A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 29 no. 4 (Nov. 2009), page 401-425.
Topik: Conversational initiations; peer-to-peer conversation; pragmatics; preschoolers; theory of mind
Fulltext: Vol 29, no (4), page 401–425.pdf (273.52KB)

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In the absence of scaffolding provided by adults or a play situation, what topics will preschoolers raise in attempting to begin conversations with each other? This study provides a first in-depth examination of preschoolers’ peer-to-peer conversational initiations. The snack-time conversations of a class of 25 preschool children were videotaped bi-weekly for 21 weeks; 507 conversational initiations were identified and classified according to a detailed coding scheme that included utterance type (e.g., comment, question), person or object referent, person referenced (e.g., self, listener), and, of particular interest, reference to mental states. Of all initiations, 77.5% referenced persons (41.2% listener) and almost 30% referenced mental states, suggesting preschoolers are using their developing understanding of mind in finding common ground with peers.

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