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Publication details [#63875]

Edwards, Derek and Carly Butler. 2018. Children’s Whining in Family Interaction. Research on Language & Social Interaction 51 (1) : 52–66.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | complaining | family conversation | language use | social interaction

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper centers on child whining uses and results, in and for social interaction. It explores what children do with it, how it is caused, and how others, mainly parents, reply to it. Data are in English.