21.3504, Qs: Directives and Tags in Children's Pretend Play

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Subject: 21.3504, Qs: Directives and Tags in Children's Pretend Play

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Date: 01-Sep-2010
From: Bethany Townsend < bat2 at rice.edu >
Subject: Directives and Tags in Children's Pretend Play
 

	
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Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:51:50
From: Bethany Townsend [bat2 at rice.edu]
Subject: Directives and Tags in Children's Pretend Play

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Dear LINGUIST Subscribers,

I am currently doing research on the language and identity of children 
engaged in dyadic pretend play, specifically their use of directives and 
invariant tag questions as control mechanisms throughout unfolding 
play scenarios.  

I am presently aware of previous research done on similar topics by 
Andersen (1978), Butler & Weatherall (2006), Garvey (1973 & 1979), 
Goodwin (1990), Howes et al. (1992), Kyratzis (1999), Schwartz 
(1991), and Sheldon (1996). However, I am afraid that there is other 
research that I am missing due to a lack of familiarity with language 
acquisition research. I am looking for good resources that I may have 
missed on the language of children engaged in pretend play from any 
linguistic subdiscipline.

Thank you in advance for your time.

Bethany Townsend
Ph.D. Student, Rice University 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Language Acquisition




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