(Re)modeling culture in Kwara‘ae: the role of discourse in children’s cognitive development  

Oleh:

Gegeo, David Welchman (Co-Author); Watson-Gegeo, Karen A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 1 no. 2 (Apr. 1999), page 227-246.
Topik: child discourse; cognitive development; cultural models; language socialization; social change
Fulltext: 227DES12.pdf (158.82KB)

Isi artikel

We examine children’s cognitive skills and cultural representations in naturally occurring discourse, integrating theoretical perspectives from psychology, cognitive anthropology, and sociolinguistics. We focus on two interactional events recorded in our 10-year study of children’s language socialization in Kwara‘ae (Solomon Islands) involving the same child at ages 2 and 4 years interacting with an older child and an adult, respectively, around routine tasks. In both cases a potentially serious cultural anomaly that challenges the children’s own constructions of cultural models tests their strategic creativity and agency in negotiating an outcome. The resulting discourse reveals how they are construing and (re)modeling culture in a time of rapid social change.

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