Boel De Geer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Boel De Geer plays a role.
2009 Autonomy orientation in Estonian and Swedish family interactions Pragmatics 19:2, pp. 279–291 | Article
This paper compares the tendency to express autonomy in 20 Estonian, 20 Swedish, and 20 Swedish Estonian middle-class families with preadolescent children during videotaped family mealtimes. The results indicate that compared to the Swedish participants, participants from both Estonian samples… read more
2005 “You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction Pragmatics 15:4, pp. 349–368 | Article
The study compared the spontaneous use of verbal comments on socio-moral behavior in 20 Estonian and 22 Swedish kindergarten peer dyads during free play situations. All comments on Moral and Social- conventional rules were coded according to Piotrowski’s (1997) model, as well as according to… read more
2005 Regulation of behavior and attention in Estonian, Finnish, and Swedish peer interaction Pragmatics 15:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
The aim of this study is to compare the regulatory speech used by Estonian, Finnish, and Swedish kindergarten children. 62 dyads with children of 3-6 years were videotaped during play. All regulatory speech was coded according to play situation (game play or free play), focus of regulation… read more
2002 Behaviour regulation in the family context in Estonia and Sweden Pragmatics 12:3, pp. 329–346 | Article
The aim of the study is to compare the regulatory speech used by parents and children in three different groups: Swedes in Sweden, and Estonians in Estonia and Sweden. 54 families with children of 9-13 were videotaped during mealtime. All regulatory speech aimed at controlling behaviour was… read more