Publications

Publication details [#42562]

Fukuda, Chie. 2005. Children's use of the masu form in play scenes. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (7) : 1037–1058.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child-child conversation | children's play | language proficiency | social interaction | socialization

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study discusses how Japanese toddlers in child–child interactions in play scenes, using two copula/verb forms with different indexical meanings -respectively the masu and the plain form-, possess tacit sociocultural knowledge of the appropriate usage of these forms.