Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Pragmatic
Development
- Pragmatics
- Prags
- Part played
by lang in
social sits &
relations
- Del
Hymes
- 'Communicative
copetence'
- When to
speak
- How to
respond to
others
- Appropriate
registers
- Lang
functions
- Bottom
line
- Children motivated
acquire lang because
it serves certain
purposes / functions
for them
- Halliday
1975
- 7 functions -
Halliday's
Taxonomy
- Instrumental
- Regulatiory
- Interactional
- Personal
- Heuristic
- Imaginative
- Representational
- Be
careful
- As w/ other
elements of lang
acquisition, prag
development begins
before child starts
to speak
- Early
yrs
- Children
intro'd to
important role
of lang i
everyday life
- Adults speak
to them a
great deal
- Routine events
accompanied by
reg repeated
utterancces
- Convo
prep
- Child - parent -
carer interactions
prepare child for
later participation
in convo
- Bancroft
1996
- 'Peek a
boo'
parallels
- Turn -
Taking
- Response
- Common
purpose &
understand
sequence
- Pleasure
- Other
interactions
- Despite fact
child hasn't yet
begun to speak,
adults will
- Ask Qs
- Express
agreement
- Give approving
/ disapproving
responses
- First
convos
- First
utterances
- Statements
(rather than Qs) &
not always
directed at
anyone
- Child will often
seem to ignore
the speaker
- Typical
covo
- Initiated
by adult
- Dependent on
cont adult input
to progress
- Later
development
- 2 - 4 signif
development
in convo skills
- Turn
taking
- Responses
to Qs
- Greetings
- Politeness
forms
- Speech
convergence &
accommodation
theory
- Yousef
1991
- Group of
children in
Trinidad
- Children
responded to diff
social sits by using
diff varieties of
English
- Janet ( 3
yrs 9
months)
- Past
tense verb
forms
- Convo w/
mum = 100%
standard
English - SE
- Family helper
(Trinidadian English
speaker) SE used
decreasing
amounts
- Brother / same
age children SE
decreased even
more
- After
starting
school
- Greater
understanding of
lang more
appropriate to
formal sits (formal
register)
- Children develop
increased
sensitivity to
needs of their
listener