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Publication details [#23317]

Hillier, Hilary. 1990. Success and unsuccess in action instigating: A framework for describing `success' in the natural speech of children aged 7-12. Occasional Papers in Systemic Linguistics 4 : 127–168.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

directive, L1-acquisition of | instigating | requesting

Annotation

H. offers a taxonomy of degrees of success of directive utterances and applies it to data involving three children (aged 7, 11, 12) playing an adventure game on the computer.