Jane Torr

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jane Torr plays a role.

Articles

Torr, Jane and Alyson Simpson 2003 The emergence of grammatical metaphor: Literacy-oriented expressions in the everyday speech of young childrenGrammatical Metaphor: Views from systemic functional linguistics, Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie, Miriam Taverniers and Louise J. Ravelli (eds.), pp. 169–183 | Article
Modality is a particularly interesting area developmentally, as it is concerned with the child's evaluation of the possibilities and obligations involved in everyday interpersonal encounters. This paper will present the findings of a longitudinal case study of one child's development of modality… read more
This paper discusses some of the results of a pilot study of spontaneous teacher/child discourse in two Year 1 Sydney classrooms (children aged 6 and 7 years). The two classrooms differed greatly in terms of their ethnic composition; in one class, the majority of children came from non-English… read more