Marsha D. Walton
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marsha D. Walton plays a role.
Articles
2013 Reported speech and the development of authorial voice in middle childhood Narrative Inquiry 23:2, pp. 388–404 | Article
The presentation of speech-in-text is an inherently meta-linguistic practice. When children bring speech into their writing, they are necessarily attending to speech as such. Constructing reported speech requires them to use language reflexively and may be a critical component of the development of… read more
2001 The Role of Personal Narrative in Bringing Children into the Moral Discourse of Their Culture Narrative Inquiry 11:2, pp. 307–334 | Article
This study examined personal narratives written by 364 inner-city 4th–6th graders about an experience with interpersonal conflict. Stories were coded for three sets of variables based on Bruner’s 1990 work on narrative thought. The co-occurrences of these variables lent support to the notions that… read more