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Publication Date: 2024
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An Empirical Study of Perlocutionary Acts in the Pragmatic Development of Preschool Children--Based on Self-Built Oral Language Corpora for Preschool Children
Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, v44 n3-4 p555-569 2024
Children's language development can reflect the developmental process of children's cognition and social emotions. The present study focuses on preschool children's conversational competence and narrative competence, aiming at exploring developmental features of preschool children's pragmatic competence through analyzing data from self-built oral language corpora using the INCA-A coding system and CLAN. Results show that with respect to using pragmatic indicators, frequency increases significantly with age in the dimensions of knowledge and language. In the language dimension, frequency is highest in the middle group and in the behavior dimension, frequency gradually decreases. Results are taken to indicate that preschool children's language competence improves continually, and gradually displaces the use of behavior-assisted language. Meanwhile, children can initiate conversation or discourse narration by using knowledge and language. Based on the findings, this study analyzes the development of preschool children's pragmatic competence at different ages within the framework of perlocutionary acts. Finally, corresponding educational suggestions are suggested.
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Development, Child Language, Pragmatics, Oral Language, Language Acquisition, Speech Acts, Mandarin Chinese, Foreign Countries
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Identifiers - Location: China
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