caregiver language Flashcards
What are Halliday’s functions of speech?
Regulatory, instrumental, interactions, personal, representational, imaginative, heuristic.
Which of Halliday’s functions could clash due to pragmatics?
Instrumental and interactional
What is the regulatory function (Halliday)
To influence the behaviour of others
What is the instrumental function (Halliday)
Fulfil a need
What does pragmatics involve?
Implicature, inference, politeness, turn taking, gender roles, rituals
Piaget says what comes first, thought or language?
Thought comes first, thought is needed to understand and use language
What does Piaget call it when children talk alone?
Egocentric speech
Who found that girls are more likely to ask for help on their jigsaws
Thompson
Who found that boys use more imperatives in play than girls?
S Sachs
What age does sociodramatic speech begin?
4 years old
Does Chomsky think that CDS is important?
No
what does egocentric speech mean?
when children can’t internalise thoughts so talk to themselves when alone
Does Piaget think that CDS is important?
No
what is child directed speech?
the language used by adults to young children in order to help their development.
what is expansion?
when adults add language to a child’s utterance to make it more grammatically accurate.
