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Publication details [#26733]

Tulviste, Tiia and Boel De Geer. 2002. Behaviour regulation in the family context in Estonia and Sweden. Pragmatics 12 (3) : 329–346.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

behavior | context | family conversation

Language as a subject

Estonian | Swedish

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper compares mealtime regulatory speech used in Swedish and Estonian families with children of 9-13 years old, living respectively in Sweden and in Estonia and Sweden. Estonian children in Sweden appear to comply significantly less than the Swedish children.