Development of pragmatic and discourse skills in Chinese-speaking children / edited by Zhu Hua, Lixian Jin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hua, Zhu, 1970- editor.

Jin, Lixian, 1957- editor.

Series:

Benjamins current topics.

Benjamins Current Topics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Chinese speakers.

English language.

Second language acquisition.

Language acquisition.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This chapter explores 3 to 6 year old Chinese children's comprehension of a picture storybook The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The results show: (1) Chinese children's understanding of images, actions and characters' states improves with age; (2) Children develop their understanding of images first, followed by actions and then characters' states; (3) It is easier for children to understand images prominent in pictures than those not prominent in pictures or containing culture-specific information with which children are not familiar, actions represented directly through the relationship of

Contents:

Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skillsin Chinese-Speaking Children; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Development of pragmatic and discourse skills in Chinese-speaking children; Defining aims; Themes and Contexts in this special issue; Acquisition of language-specific features; Sociocultural and socioeconomic factors in development of pragmatic and discourse skills; Understanding the process of meaning-making through pictures; Looking back and looking forward; References; The pragmatic function of self/other reference in Mandarin child language; 1. Introduction

1.1 Forms and functions of self/other reference1.2 Self/other reference in child Mandarin; 1.3 The present study; 2. Methods; 2.1 Participants and data; 2.2 Analytical framework; 3. Results; 3.1 Instances of self/other reference; 3.2 Forms and functions of self-reference; 3.2.1 Children's speech; 3.2.2 Mothers' speech; 3.3 Forms and functions of other-reference; 3.3.1 Children's speech; 3.3.2 Mothers' speech; 4. Discussion and Conclusion; References; Appendix; Transcription conventions; Gloss abbreviations; Tense and temporality; 1. Introduction; 1.1 How time is expressed in Chinese languages

1.2 Acquisition of Chinese temporality in the early years2. Method; 2.1 The Corpus; 2.2 Communication task; 2.3 Coding of the linguistic forms and functions; 3. Results; 3.1 The developmental repertoires of temporal lexicons; 3.2 The developmental changes in time expression; 3.3 Double aspectual marking and inappropriate use of temporal devices; 4. Discussion; 4.1 Acquisition of temporal devices by Cantonese speakers in the early years; 4.2 Acquisition of time concepts in the early years; 4.3 Acquisition of the pragmatics of time expression in the early years; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments

ReferencesMaternal affective input in mother-child interaction; 1. Introduction; 2. Data and methods; 3. Results; 3.1 American maternal positivity vs. Chinese maternal negativity; 3.2 Praise and appreciation - Positive maternal affective input; 3.3 Threatening, scolding, and name-calling - Negative maternal affective input; 4. Discussion; 5. Concluding remarks; References; Do educational backgrounds make a difference?; 1. Introduction; 2. Method; 2.1 Participants; 2.2 Procedure; 2.3 Data analysis; 3. Results; 3.1 Comparison of the mothers' communicative participation

3.2 Comparison of mothers' communicative interchanges3.2.1 Social interchanges by mothers with different educational backgrounds in interactions with their children; 3.2.2 Comparison of speech acts of mothers with different educational backgrounds; 3.2.3 Levels of Pragmatic flexibility by mothers with different backgrounds in interaction with children; 3.3 Comparison of language quality in interaction by HEB and LEB mothers; 3.3.1 Analysis of language input in interaction with children by HEB and LEB mothers; 3.3.2 Analysis of language types used in speech acts by HEB and LEB mothers

3.3.3 Analysis of mean length of turns within a topic in mother-child interactions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027270269

9027270260

OCLC:

878920031