Publications

Publication details [#40898]

Grover Aukrust, Vibeke. 2004. Talk about talk with young children: pragmatic socialization in two communities in Norway and the US. Journal of Child Language 31 (1) : 177–201.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | dinner conversation | language and culture | pragmatics | socialization

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study examines mealtime conversations between children and their families in respectively Oslo, Norway, Cambridge, and Massachusetts, to see whether cultures differ in the talk about talk that children hear and learn to produce.