Development of interactional discourse markers: Insights from Turkish children’s and adults’ oral narratives  

Oleh:

Furman, Reyhan ; Ozyurek, Asli

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 39 no. 10 (Oct. 2007), page 1742-1757.
Topik: Functions of discourse markers; Narrative development; Turkish; Levels of discourse
Fulltext: Furman_Reyhan.pdf (219.72KB)

Isi artikel

Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic elements that index different relations and coherence between units of talk (Schiffrin, Deborah, 1987.Discourse Markers. Cambridge University Press,Cambridge).Most research on the development of these forms has focused on conversations rather than narratives and furthermore has not directly compared children’s use of DMs to adult usage. This study examines the development of three DMs (s¸ey ‘uuhh’, yani ‘Imean’, is¸te ‘y’know’) that mark interactional levels of discourse in oralTurkish narratives in 60 Turkish children (3-, 5- and 9-year-olds) and 20 Turkish-speaking adults. The results show that the frequency and functions of DMs change with age. Children learn s¸ey, which mainly marks exchange level structures, earliest. However, yani and is¸te have multi-functions such as marking both information states and participation frameworks and are consequently learned later. Children also use DMs with different functions than adults. Overall, the results show that learning to use interactional DMs in narratives is complex and goes beyond age 9, especially for multi-functional DMs that index an interplay of discourse coherence at different levels.

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