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Publication details [#57351]

Chen, Yupin. 2013. Children’s formal division of labor in requests. Pragmatics 23 (2) : 215–241.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

form | imperative1 | mother-child conversation | pragmatic competence | request

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper examines children's pragmatic development by analyzing Mandarin-speaking toddlers' requests in interactions with their parents. Simple imperatives and WANT statements, linked to awareness of parents’ interactional cooperativeness, appear children’s two primal request forms.