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1 online resource |
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Benjamins Current Topics |
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Benjamins current topics.
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Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; Development of pragmatic and discourse skills in Chinese-speaking children; Defining aims; Themes and Contexts in this special issue; Acquisition of language-specific features; Sociocultural and socioeconomic factors in development of pragmatic and discourse skills; Understanding the process of meaning-making through pictures; Looking back and looking forward; References; The pragmatic function of self/other reference in Mandarin child language |
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1. Introduction1.1 Forms and functions of self/other reference; 1.2 Self/other reference in child Mandarin; 1.3 The present study; 2. Methods; 2.1 Participants and data; 2.2 Analytical framework; 3. Results; 3.1 Instances of self/other reference; 3.2 Forms and functions of self-reference; 3.2.1 Children's speech; 3.2.2 Mothers' speech; 3.3 Forms and functions of other-reference; 3.3.1 Children's speech; 3.3.2 Mothers' speech; 4. Discussion and Conclusion; References; Appendix; Transcription conventions; Gloss abbreviations; Tense and temporality; 1. Introduction |
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1.1 How time is expressed in Chinese languages1.2 Acquisition of Chinese temporality in the early years; 2. Method; 2.1 The Corpus; 2.2 Communication task; 2.3 Coding of the linguistic forms and functions; 3. Results; 3.1 The developmental repertoires of temporal lexicons; 3.2 The developmental changes in time expression; 3.3 Double aspectual marking and inappropriate use of temporal devices; 4. Discussion; 4.1 Acquisition of temporal devices by Cantonese speakers in the early years; 4.2 Acquisition of time concepts in the early years |
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4.3 Acquisition of the pragmatics of time expression in the early years5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Maternal affective input in mother-child interaction; 1. Introduction; 2. Data and methods; 3. Results; 3.1 American maternal positivity vs. Chinese maternal negativity; 3.2 Praise and appreciation -- Positive maternal affective input; 3.3 Threatening, scolding, and name-calling -- Negative maternal affective input; 4. Discussion; 5. Concluding remarks; References; Do educational backgrounds make a difference?; 1. Introduction; 2. Method; 2.1 Participants; 2.2 Procedure |
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2.3 Data analysis3. Results; 3.1 Comparison of the mothers' communicative participation; 3.2 Comparison of mothers' communicative interchanges; 3.2.1 Social interchanges by mothers with different educational backgrounds in interactions with their children; 3.2.2 Comparison of speech acts of mothers with different educational backgrounds; 3.2.3 Levels of Pragmatic flexibility by mothers with different backgrounds in interaction with children; 3.3 Comparison of language quality in interaction by HEB and LEB mothers |
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This chapter explores 3 to 6 year old Chinese children's comprehension of a picture storybook The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The results show: (1) Chinese children's understanding of images, actions and characters' states improves with age; (2) Children develop their understanding of images first, followed by actions and then characters' states; (3) It is easier for children to understand images prominent in pictures than those not prominent in pictures or containing culture-specific information with which children are not familiar, actions represented directly through the relationship of differ |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Chinese speakers.
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Second language acquisition.
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Language acquisition.
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Discourse analysis
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Discourse analysis
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Chinese speakers
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Language acquisition
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Second language acquisition
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hua, Zhu, 1970- editor.
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Jin, Lixian, 1957- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789027270269 |
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9027270260 |
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1306705878 |
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9781306705875 |
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9027202796 |
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9789027202796 |
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