Publications

Publication details [#1542]

Boggs, Stephen T. 1978. The development of verbal disputing in part-Hawaiian children. Language in Society 7 (3) : 325–344.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dispute, L1-acquisition of | social context

Language as a subject

Hawaiian

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Description of a pattern of disputes observed among Hawaiian children (namely, the forceful use of 'Not!' in direct contradiction by one speaker to another), and its development from early childhood into adolescence, and the context of relationship in which it develops.