The Acquisition of Referring Expressions : A Dialogical Approach / edited by Anne Salazar-Orvig [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salazar Orvig, Anne, 1953- editor.

Series:

Trends in language acquisition research ; Volume 28.

Trends in Language Acquisition Research Series ; Volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reference (Linguistics).

Language acquisition.

Children--Language.

Children.

French language--Acquisition.

French language.

Language awareness in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"This book describes the repertoire and uses of referring expressions by French-speaking children and their interlocutors in naturally occurring dialogues at home and at school, in a wide-range of communicative situations and activities. Through the lens of an interactionist and dialogical perspective, it highlights the interaction between the formal aspects of the acquisition of grammatical morphemes, the discourse-pragmatic dimension, and socio-discursive, interactional and dialogical factors. Drawing on this multidimensional theoretical and methodological framework, the first part of the book deals with the relation between reference and grammar, while the second part is devoted to the role of the communicative experience. Progressively, a set of arguments is brought out in favor of a dialogical and interactionist account of children's referential development. This theoretical stance is further discussed in relation to other approaches of reference acquisition. Thus, this volume provides researchers and students with new perspectives and methods for the study of referring expressions in children"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1. A dialogical approach to the acquisition and usage of referring expressions

Part I. Reference and grammar

Chapter 2. Filler syllables as precursors of referring expressions

Chapter 3. Young children’s uses of referring expressions

Chapter 4. Referring in dialogical narratives

Chapter 5. Referring expressions and developmental language disorders

Chapter 6. Explorations in the relations between reference, syntactic constructions and prosody

Part II. The role of communicative experience

Chapter 7. The influence of dialogue in young children’s uses of referring expressions

Chapter 8. Variations in adult use of referring expressions during storytelling in different interactional settings

Chapter 9. Activities and social settings: Their roles in the use of referring expressions

Chapter 10. The impact of speech genres on the use of referring expressions

Conclusion

Chapter 11. The acquisition of referring expressions: From formal factors to communicative experience

Appendix I. Corpora

Appendix II. Transcription conventions

Appendix III. A. Summary of “Ah les belles vacances des petits cochons”

Appendix III. B. Summary of “Le voleur de poule”

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

1221019043