Conversational Competence and Social Development (repost)
Ioanna Dimitracopoulou, "Conversational Competence and Social Development"
English | 1990-08-31 | ISBN: 0521375517 | 179 pages | PDF | 5 mb
English | 1990-08-31 | ISBN: 0521375517 | 179 pages | PDF | 5 mb
This book provides new insight into the development of the child's ability to become a competent participant in conversation. The author combines a pragmatic analysis of the functions language can perform with an innovative and extensive empirical investigation of the development of young children's language use and sociocognitive skills.
She gives a detailed description of the development of children's language between the ages of three-and-a-half and seven, broadens the scope of theorizing about language development by placing it in relation to the development of social understanding, and provides a new framework for understanding speech problems and designing ways to solve them. It is the first study to find a strong link between language, sociocognitive development, and social development. It will be welcomed by child language specialists, developmental and social psychologists, conversation and discourse analysts, and their advanced students.