Development of pragmatic and discourse skills in Chinese-speaking children / / edited by Zhu Hua, Lixian Jin

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (140 p.)
• Disciplina: 428.24951
• Soggetto topico: English language - Study and teaching - Chinese speakers; Second language acquisition; Language acquisition; Discourse analysis
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): HuaZhu <1970->; JinLixian <1957->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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 ; 1.2 Acquisition of Chinese temporality in the early years2. Method; 2.1 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 ; 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 ; 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 ; 3.3.3 Analysis of mean length of turns within a topic in mother-child interactions
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Development of pragmatic and discourse skills in Chinese-speaking children
• ISBN: 90-272-7026-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458857303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Benjamins current topics.