Talking to localize and guide: pragmatics and child Relative Clauses usage
Abstract
This research analyzes the characteristics of discursive actions used by children (5 and 7 years-old) in conversations with an adult when they need to locate and guide to their conversational partner who does not know the physical space referred. The analysis focused on the pragmatic conditions of the task and the Relative Clauses (Rcs.) usage. The analysis allowed to recognize that, in these interactional dynamics, the plotting and use of spatial language are co-dependent phenomena, that there is interdependence between the activity of plotting and Rcs. usages and that there is a strong relationship between the frequency of Rcs. usages with the processes by which children configure and model the cognitive representations of the spaces described.
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