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Pragmatic Development
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Child language acquisition mind map on the early developments of language
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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
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