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Publication details [#3421]

Foster, Sue. 1979. Topic initiation - One step or two: Some factors involved in mother-child interaction at the prelinguistic stage. Nottingham Linguistic Circular 8 (2) : 96–107.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | pre-verbal age | topic initiation

Person as a subject

Keenan, E.O. | Schieffelin, B.B.

Annotation

F. gives an outline of the model of topic initiation proposed by E.O. Keenan, B.B. Schieffelin (1976: 'Topic as a discourse notion') and discusses the various factors involved in whether the 'speaker' realizes the steps he must take in order to be successful as a single unit or separately.