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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Development of pragmatic and discourse skills in Chinese-speaking children / / edited by Zhu Hua, Lixian Jin"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2014"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"90-272-7026-0"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (140 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Benjamins Current Topics"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"428.24951"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"English language - Study and teaching - Chinese speakers"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Second language acquisition"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Language acquisition"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Discourse analysis"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skillsin Chinese-Speaking Children; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Development of pragmatic and discourse skills in Chinese-speaking children; Defining aims; Themes and Contexts in this special issue; Acquisition of language-specific features; Sociocultural and socioeconomic factors in development of pragmatic and discourse skills; Understanding the process of meaning-making through pictures; Looking back and looking forward; References; The pragmatic function of self/other reference in Mandarin child language; 1. Introduction"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1.1 Forms and functions of self/other reference1.2 Self/other reference in child Mandarin; 1.3 The present study; 2. Methods; 2.1 Participants and data; 2.2 Analytical framework; 3. Results; 3.1 Instances of self/other reference; 3.2 Forms and functions of self-reference; 3.2.1 Children's speech; 3.2.2 Mothers' speech; 3.3 Forms and functions of other-reference; 3.3.1 Children's speech; 3.3.2 Mothers' speech; 4. Discussion and Conclusion; References; Appendix; Transcription conventions; Gloss abbreviations; Tense and temporality; 1. Introduction; 1.1 How time is expressed in Chinese languages"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1.2 Acquisition of Chinese temporality in the early years2. Method; 2.1 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"The Corpus; 2.2 Communication task; 2.3 Coding of the linguistic forms and functions; 3. Results; 3.1 The developmental repertoires of temporal lexicons; 3.2 The developmental changes in time expression; 3.3 Double aspectual marking and inappropriate use of temporal devices; 4. Discussion; 4.1 Acquisition of temporal devices by Cantonese speakers in the early years; 4.2 Acquisition of time concepts in the early years; 4.3 Acquisition of the pragmatics of time expression in the early years; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments"]
[{"$nulls":4},"ReferencesMaternal affective input in mother-child interaction; 1. Introduction; 2. Data and methods; 3. Results; 3.1 American maternal positivity vs. Chinese maternal negativity; 3.2 Praise and appreciation - Positive maternal affective input; 3.3 Threatening, scolding, and name-calling - Negative maternal affective input; 4. Discussion; 5. Concluding remarks; References; Do educational backgrounds make a difference?; 1. Introduction; 2. Method; 2.1 Participants; 2.2 Procedure; 2.3 Data analysis; 3. Results; 3.1 Comparison of the mothers' communicative participation"]
[{"$nulls":4},"3.2 Comparison of mothers' communicative interchanges3.2.1 Social interchanges by mothers with different educational backgrounds in interactions with their children; 3.2.2 Comparison of speech acts of mothers with different educational backgrounds; 3.2.3 Levels of Pragmatic flexibility by mothers with different backgrounds in interaction with children; 3.3 Comparison of language quality in interaction by HEB and LEB mothers; 3.3.1 Analysis of language input in interaction with children by HEB and LEB mothers; 3.3.2 Analysis of language types used in speech acts by HEB and LEB mothers"]
[{"$nulls":4},"3.3.3 Analysis of mean length of turns within a topic in mother-child interactions"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This chapter explores 3 to 6 year old Chinese children's comprehension of a picture storybook The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The results show: (1) Chinese children's understanding of images, actions and characters' states improves with age; (2) Children develop their understanding of images first, followed by actions and then characters' states; (3) It is easier for children to understand images prominent in pictures than those not prominent in pictures or containing culture-specific information with which children are not familiar, actions represented directly through the relationship of"]