Requests for actions and their responses in caregiver-child interactions : a conversation analytic approach

• Main Author: Tse Crepaldi, Yvonne
• Other Authors: Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Language acquisition; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Discourse analysis; DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Discursive psychology; DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Pragmatics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/72525
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Children regularly encounter caregivers' requests for action (or inaction) in everyday interactions (through ‘directives’, ‘proposals’, ‘entreaties’, etc.). Prior research shows that children may comply with or defy such requests by making use of a variety of verbal as well as multimodal resour...