Publications

Publication details [#58135]

Bova, Antonio and Francesco Arcidiacono. 2013. Investigating children’s Why-questions: A study comparing argumentative and explanatory function. Discourse Studies 15 (6) : 713–734.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | dinner conversation | family conversation | information chunking | why-question

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study argues that both explanatory and argumentative child Why-questioning during family mealtimes in upper-middle-class Swiss and Italian families, serve a knowledge-seeking purpose.