Publications

Publication details [#52698]

Radford, Julie and Annabel Burns. 2008. Parent-child interaction in Nigerian families: conversation analysis, context and culture. Child Language Teaching & Therapy 24 (2) : 193–209.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | conversational analysis | family conversation | language and culture | mother-child conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/

Annotation

This conversation analytic study of parent-child interaction (PCI) within Nigerian families, reveals a culturally defined preference for instructional talk, similar to the one employed in the classroom.