1st Edition

Children's Language Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence

200 Pages
by Psychology Press

196 Pages
by Psychology Press

200 Pages
by Psychology Press

These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child language research and theory--particularly in the domains of discourse and interaction--they convey not... Read more
Contents: Preface. A. Aksu-Koç, K.E. Nelson, C.E. Johnson, Introduction. R.A. Berman, Setting the Narrative Scene: How Children Begin to Tell a Story. H.J. Batoréo, I.H. Faria, Representation of Movement in European Portugese: A Study of Children's Narratives. M. Bamberg, Why Young American English-Speaking Children Confuse Anger and Sadness: A Study of Grammar in Practice. G. Wigglesworth, A. Stavans, A Crosscultural Investigation of Australian and Israeli Parents' Narrative Interactions With Their Children. K. Nakamura, The Acquisition of Polite Language by Japanese Children. E. Veneziano, Interactional Processes in the Origins of the Explaining Capacity. K. Reeder, Children's Attributions of Pragmatic Intentions and Early Writing Ability. K.E. Nelson, A. Aksu-Koc, C.E. Johnson, Commentaries.

Biography

Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Carolyn E. Johnson