The grammar of autobiography : a developmental account / Jean Quigley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quigley, Jean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Modality.

English language.

English language--Grammar.

Children--Language.

Children.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

xiv, 232 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000.

Summary:

This monograph explores in detail the modal auxiliaries used in children's autobiographical narratives & uses the results of this analysis to put forward a theory of identity devt as reflected in narrative. For developmentalists, linguists,

Contents:

1 The Discursive Self 1

2 Modal Auxiliaries, Subjectivity and the Self 15

The English Modal Auxiliaries and their System of Meanings 29

The Acquisition and Development of the English Modal Auxiliaries: Psycholinguistic Research 40

3 The Study: a Developmental Linguistic Investigation of Modal Auxiliaries in Children's Autobiographical Accounts 57

I Modal Grammar in the Construction of the Self 64

4 A Sense of Responsibility: Can 74

A Sense of Commitment: Will 81

II The Grammar of Autobiographical Narrative 105

5 A Sense of Location 111

Tense: Acting Out or Acting Into? 111

Verbs: Acting Out or Acted On? 126

Pronouns: Speaker or Spoken About? 134

III Construction a Narrative Identity 144

6 Accounting for Oneself: the Discourse of Agency 149

Reporting 149

Agency 150

Emotions 157

Theory of Mind Statements 166

7 Evaluating Oneself: the Discourse of Morality 172

Interpersonal Narrating Functions 172

Prescribing 175

Problem-Solving 179

Unreal States 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.

ISBN:

0805834834

OCLC:

43185961