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Publication details [#38959]

Ladegaard, Hans J. 2004. Politeness in young children’s speech: context, peer group influence and pragmatic competence. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (11) : 2003–2022.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | context | peer group | politeness | pragmatic competence

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article on children’s pragmatic competence discusses the findings of an empirical study on Danish child language in play, focusing on the use of politeness phenomena.