"Don't Be Cheeky": Requests, Directives, and Being a Child.

Sealey, Alison

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ERIC Number: EJ597438

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1999

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"Don't Be Cheeky": Requests, Directives, and Being a Child.

Sealey, Alison

Journal of Sociolinguistics, v3 n1 p24-40 Feb 1999

Collected naturalistic data from six children age 8-9 talking with their relatives and friends. Focuses on directives and requests used by the children and their interlocutors in informal conversations. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Variation, Parent Child Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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