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Publication details [#3054]

Embree, Suzanne Harpole. 1978. The narrative discourse of preschool children. In Peng, Fred C.C. and Walburga Von Raffler-Engel, eds. Language acquisition and developmental kinesics. Bunka Hyoron. pp. 70–92.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational narrative | pre-school age

Annotation

Narrative discourse is said to serve cognitive, referential and social evaluative functions. E. deals with preschool children's participation in it, and characteristics of preschool children's narratives.