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Publication details [#56806]

Bateman, Amanda. 2012. Forging friendships: The use of collective pro-terms by pre-school children. Discourse Studies 14 (2) : 165–180.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dyadic interaction | language use | pre-school age | social network | social relationship

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study discloses how four-year-old pre-school children in Wales employ the collective pro-terms ‘we’ and ‘us’ in order to develop peer likings and lockouts in their everyday social interaction organization and how they prefer exclusive dyadic interaction.