Discourse Development

Question 1

Grice’s four conversational maxims or rules by which conversations should be conducted

Answer 1

• Quality : Tell the truth
• Quantity : Don’t say too much / too little
• Relevance : Make sure utterances are relevant to the conversations
• Manner : Being brief and straight forward

Question 2

Sinclair
• IRF

Answer 2

> Model for analysing discourse to see the structure of interactions

• Imitation e.g. “ What are you making with that playdough?”
• Response e.g. “ It is a mermaid. “
• Feedback e.g. “ A mermaid? That’s great, I love its tail. “

> Large number of adjacency pairs ( simple structure of two turns ) usually led by the caregiver in order to encourage language development