Fwd: Re: Do children know what it means to 'talk posh'? as we say in gb english

[Beverly Flanigan]

And one more:

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>From: Amy Sheldon <asheldon at tc.umn.edu>
>To: Aubrey Nunes <aubrey at pigeonpostbox.co.uk>
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>My work on preschoolers (3-5 yrs) and others' on young children, showing
>gender differences in conflict management could be interpreted as
>*implicit* understanding and skill in making linguisic choices to manage
>one's agenda to manipulate social outcomes. I would think this skill is
>part of the phenomena you are asking about: the relationship between
>linguistic choices ('style') and the exercise of authority and power. 8
>yrs.  would be quite late to begin this skill, according the the
>literature, but also if you take a common sense approach to what it takes
>to live in groups for the first 8 or so years of life, and were to have
>any chance of getting what you want using language.
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>Antecedents in really young kids might be behaviors such as
>smiling.
>
>Amy Sheldon
>
>On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Aubrey Nunes wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > What I am asking about is perhaps a very British English phenomenon - or
> > perhaps a point of sensitivity sharper in britain than elsewhere.
> >
> > My question is this: how early and how accurately do children learn to
> > detect corelations between a particular sort of speech and the exercise of
> > authority and power?
> >
> > I once read an unpublished BEd thesis from the early 90's showing that the
> > issues at stake here were pretty well understood by children of around 8;0,
> > as I recall. Since the implications are kind of obvious, I am sure that
> this
> > must have been well studied and reported.
> >
> > I would be most grateful for any pointers to literature on this.
> >
> > Aubrey
> >
> >
> > Aubrey Nunes,
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> >
> >
> >