Children’s Elicited Use of Pragmatic Language Functions: How Six- and Seven-year-old Children Adapt to the Interactional Environments of Story Scenarios  

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Pershey, Monica Gordon

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Awareness (Full Text) vol. 9 no. 4 (2000), page 218-235.
Fulltext: 9.4.218-235.pdf (244.7KB)

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Pragmatic language skill involves adapting to an interactional environment where a communicator must interpret and originate communicative acts. This study used an elicitation procedure to reveal how 80 six- and seven-year-old children adapted to the pragmatic context of a story andfurnisheda remarkthatwould be pragmaticallyappropriate for a story character to utter. Children ‘spoke for’ characters in about 70% of the contexts and thus revealed facility in conceptual perspective-taking and attributing mental states to others. The use of self-generated extra-textual language reveals one way that pragmatic language skill is at work when young children comprehend and respond to text. Given these findings, a model of children’s transaction with narrative basedon interpretationof others’mental states,understanding of pretence and characterisation, and pragmatic language skill is proposed.

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