Child Language Pragmatics Flashcards
What are the frequent features of a child’s speech?
- No tags
- Hedges
- Fillers
- False starts
- Repetition
- Frequent Topic drift
- Deixis
- Multiple Co ordination
Who created the Co-operative principle?
Grice
What did the Co-operative principle say?
We use conversation to establish comity with our interlocutors.
Who created minimal response?
Grice - it’s done such as nods and noises to show active participation.
Who established the turn taking rules?
Sacks
Name 3 adjacency pairs.
- Greeting/ Greeting
- Question/ Answering
- Request/ Acceptation
What is the rule with children and topics?
Adult usually dictates the topic in a conversation. Sometimes the child recommends the topic but that doesn’t make the child the dominant speaker.
What is Grice’s 4 maxims?
- Maxim of relevance
- Maxim of quality
- Maxim of quantity
- Maxim of manner
What did Lackoff say about the politeness theory?
Positive face is where the right to self image is threatened. Negative face is where their right to self determination is threatened.
Who makes FTA?
Children make more FTA as they’ve not learnt politeness theory yet, whereas adults make less as they do not intend to insult anyone.
What is Lackoff Maxims of politeness?
- Don’t impose
- Give options
- Make listener feel good
What are Hallidays Taxonomies?
- Instrumental - fulfil a need
- Regulatory - ‘go away’
- Interactional - maintain relations
- Personal - convey feelings
- Representational - convey facts
- Imaginative - create imagery
- Heuristics - learn more
What are Dore’s Functions?
- Labelling - naming
- Calling - shouting
- Requesting action
- Answering - replying back
- Repeating - adults utterances
- Greeting
- Protesting - objecting
- Practicing - language not directed at anyone.
