Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children

Special Issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1 (2012)

Editors
ORCID logoZhu Hua | Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Lixian Jin | De Montfort University, UK
[Chinese Language and Discourse, 3:1] 2012.  v, 127 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Development of pragmatic and discourse skills in Chinese-speaking children
Zhu Hua and Lixian Jin
1–11
Articles
The pragmatic function of self/other reference in Mandarin child language
Chiung-chih Huang
13–34
Tense and temporality: How young children express time in Cantonese
Shek Kam Tse, Hui Li and Shing On Leung
35–56
Maternal affective input in mother–child interaction: A cross-cultural perspective
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
57–89
Do educational backgrounds make a difference? A comparative study on communicative acts of Chinese mothers in interacting with their young children
Jing Zhou and Lixian Jin
90–108
Chinese preschool children’s comprehension of a picture storybook
Linhui Li, Jing Zhou, Baogen Liu and Xiaomei Gao
109–127
Subjects