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Publication details [#22998]

Becker, Judith A. 1988. `I can't talk, I'm dead': Preschoolers' spontaneous metapragmatic comments. Discourse Processes 11 (4) : 457–467.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | first language acquisition | metacommunication | metapragmatic awareness

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

B. identifies five types of metapragmatic comments produced by preschool children in family interaction. It is shown that children take an active role in expanding and testing their pragmatic skills.