Publications

Publication details [#58483]

Moore, Ekaterina. 2014. “You are children but you can always say ...”: hypothetical direct reported speech and child–parent relationships in a Heritage Language classroom. Text & Talk 34 (5) : 591–621.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | communicative style | mother-child conversation | religion | reported speech

Language as a subject

Russian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This article explores how children enrolled in a religious Russian Heritage Language school are instructed to behave in culturally suitable ways towards their parents, via hypothetical direct reported speech that advocates polite and dutiful communicative conduct, whilst also proposing ways to contradict parents.