Promises: Words or deeds?  

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Astington, Janet W.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 8 no. 24 (1988), page 259-270.
Fulltext: First Language 1988 8. 259-270.pdf (677.0KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/FIL/8 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Although young children perform speech acts, they do not have a concept of the speech act that older children acquire, and they are not aware of the role that language plays in social interaction. This metapragmatic understanding is particularly important for the speech act of promising, since promises are self-referential. Two experiments that investigated children’s understanding of promising are reported. In the first, 5- to 11-year-olds had to choose pictures to illustrate sentences containing expressions of intention or promises; 5-year-olds did not distinguish between the speech act and the action predicated in the speech act. In the second experiment 6- to 10-year-olds had to answer questions following brief stories; 6-year-olds were less likely than older children to say that the promise is the reason for performing a promised action, and 6-year-olds were more likely to focus on events than on language in deciding whether a promise was kept or broken.

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