Talk about Talk with Young Children: Pragmatic Socialization in Two Communities in Norway and the US

Autor/in	Aukrust, Vibeke Grover
Titel	Talk about Talk with Young Children: Pragmatic Socialization in Two Communities in Norway and the US
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 31 (2004) 1, S.177-201 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000903005907
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Young Children; Child Language; Language Acquisition; Discourse Analysis; Cultural Differences; Socialization; Pragmatics; Preschool Education; Linguistic Input; Language Research; Massachusetts; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Frühe Kindheit; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Diskursanalyse; Kultureller Unterschied; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Pragmalinguistik; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Sprachbildung; Sprachforschung; Master-Studiengang; Norwegen
Abstract	Recent studies have suggested that cultures vary in subtle ways in the talk about talk that children hear and learn to produce. Twenty-two three-year-old children and their families in respectively Oslo, Norway and Cambridge, Massachusetts were observed during mealtime with the aim of identifying talk-focused talk. The analysis distinguished talk about (a) language "per se", (b) discourse management, and (c) former conversations and use of reported speech. No category of talk-focused talk appeared exclusively in either community, and the frequency of such talk was similar across these. The Oslo families talked more often about language "per se" and their talk-focused conversations typically had a question-answer form. Talk about talk appeared more often within narratives in Oslo and within explanations in Cambridge. A second analysis compared talk-focused talk at home with such talk at school, suggesting that talk about language "per se" appeared more often at school across the two communities. [This research was supported by the Norwegian Research Council.] (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10