Preschoolers' communicative competence: register shift in the marking of power in different contexts of friendship group talk

Research has focused on the acquisition of register knowledge, the process by which children choose the appropriate speech (e.g., request forms) for the circumstance. This study examines preschoolers' control act language as a device to index ranking in the friendship group. Are certain childre...

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Published in:First language 2001-10, Vol.21 (63), p.387-429
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