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Publication details [#424]

Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. 1983. Acquiring conversational competence. Routledge and Kegan Paul. xvii + 208 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
child language | communicative competence, L1-acquisition of | discourse organization | pragmatic function | social context

Annotation

This collection of papers is intended for people professionally concerned with children's language, who need reliable descriptions of especially naturally occurring language in real situations. The focus is on formal linguistic and pragmatic characteristics of discourse organization.

Articles in this volume

Keenan, Elinor Ochs. Conversational competence in children. 3–25
Keenan, Elinor Ochs. Making it last: Repetition in children's discourse. 26–39
Keenan, Elinor Ochs. Evolving discourse: the next step. 40–49
Schieffelin, Bambi B. Looking and talking: The functions of gaze direction in the conversation of a young child and her mother. 50–65
Keenan, Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin. Topic as a discourse notion: A study of topic in the conversations of children and adults. 66–113
Keenan, Elinor Ochs, Bambi B. Schieffelin and Martha L. Platt. Questions of immediate concern. 114–126
Ochs, Elinor. Planned and unplanned discourse. 129–157
Keenan, Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin. Foregrounding referents: A reconsideration of left dislocation in discourse. 158–174
Schieffelin, Bambi B. Talking like birds: Soundplay in cultural perspective. 177–184
Ochs, Elinor. Cultural dimensions of language acquisition. 185–191

Reviewed by

Shugar, Grace Wales. 1989. Review of E.Ochs, B.B.Schieffelin (1983: `Acquiring conversational competence').

Reprints

Ochs, Elinor. 1997. Cultural Dimensions of Language Acquisition. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 430–437.