Attention to Language: Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table.

Ely, Richard; Gleason, Jean Berko; MacGibbon, Ann; Zaretsky, Elena

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ERIC Number: EJ643718

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2001

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Attention to Language: Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table.

Ely, Richard; Gleason, Jean Berko; MacGibbon, Ann; Zaretsky, Elena

Social Development, v10 n3 p355-73 2001

Studied the dinner table conversations of 22 families with young children. Analyzed utterances for language-focused terms. Reported that metalinguistic uses exceeded pragmatic uses. Found that during routine social interactions, parents provide children with potentially important information about the communicative functions of language. (Author/DLH)

Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence, Metalinguistics, Oral Language, Parent Child Relationship, Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Young Children

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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