Chapter 4
Requests in Turkish and German child-directed and child speech
Evidence from different socio-economic backgrounds
On the basis of parent-child interaction data of families from different socio-economic status (SES), we discuss the usage of requests in input and output of three-year old monolingual German-speaking children and bilingual children speaking mainly Turkish at home. Whereas high SES parents are known to use more conversation-eliciting speech acts, low SES parents often show a behavior-directing conversation style. Especially, directive speech acts provide an interesting testing ground for exploring different conversation styles. Results confirm the expected SES differences for the monolingual, but not for the bilingual parents. Nevertheless, we find similar tendencies in both monolingual and bilingual children, such as HSES children use more indirect requests, whereas LSES children use more direct requests and ask more real questions.
Article outline
- 1.Background
- 1.1Introduction
- 1.2Socio-economic status and parenting style
- 1.3Speech acts
- 1.4Requests in Turkish and German
- 1.5Hypotheses and aims
- 2.Method
- 2.1Participants
- 2.2Procedure
- 2.3Transcription and coding
- 3.Results
- 3.1Turkish
- 3.1.1Speech acts
- 3.1.2Directive speech acts: Real questions vs. requests
- 3.1.3Direct vs. indirect requests
- 3.2German
- 3.2.1Speech acts
- 3.2.2Directive speech acts: Real questions vs. requests
- 3.2.3Direct vs. indirect requests
- 4.Discussion and conclusion
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Acknowledgment
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Note
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