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Publication details [#2779]

Dore, John. 1979. Conversational acts and the acquisition of language. In Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. Developmental pragmatics. Academic Press. pp. 339–361.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context of L1-acquisition | conversation | first language acquisition

Annotation

D. argues that conversation is the immediate communicative context for language development, but that the properties of conversation itself cannot explain the abstract structure of the language the child acquires.