Publications
Publication details [#9173]
Stern, Otto. 1984. Developing decontextualized language in children's narratives. In Auer, J.C. Peter and Aldo Di Luzio, eds. Interpretive sociolinguistics: Migrants, children, migrant children. G. Narr. pp. 129–145.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Annotation
Drawing evidence from the analysis of discourse strategies to signal foreground vs. background information, S. illustrates the growing capacity of 6-to 7-year old children to decontextualize meaning in oral narratives.