Metapragmatic awareness development in Chinese Children: A conversational competence perspective

IF 1.8 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Lulu Cheng , Yang Gao , Haoran Mao , Yule Peng
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Abstract

The current study investigates the development of metapragmatic awareness in conversational competence among Chinese children aged 4–12 years. Utilizing eight cartoons, children were engaged with a series of metapragmatic questions targeting violations of four maxims of cooperation. By assessing their performance in a task involving conversational principles, we explore the progression of their metapragmatic skills. The results shows i) The metapragmatic awareness in different age groups increased. The early school-age stage was the transitional period in the development of children's metapragmatic awareness. The development range of metapragmatic awareness did not continuously increase in the later school-age stage. ii) Metacognitive awareness was in the salient position in the preschool stage, and in the early school-age stage metarepresentational awareness was predominant. Three forms of metapragmatic awareness did not develop sequentially. iii) The Chinese paratactic language structures and their profound cultural backgrounds influenced children's performance of metapragmatic awareness. This research provides a new paradigm for developmental pragmatics and it has a certain value for the treatment and intervention of the children with pragmatic impairments.

中国儿童的语用意识发展:会话能力视角
本研究调查了 4-12 岁中国儿童在会话能力方面的元语用意识发展情况。我们利用八幅漫画,针对儿童违反四条合作格言的行为,向他们提出了一系列隐喻问题。通过评估他们在涉及会话原则的任务中的表现,我们探究了他们元语用能力的进步。结果表明 i) 不同年龄组的元句法意识都有所提高。学龄初期是儿童元语用意识发展的过渡期。ii) 元认知意识在学前阶段处于突出地位,在学龄初期阶段元呈现意识占主导地位。iii)汉语的副词结构及其深厚的文化背景影响了儿童元认知的表现。这项研究为发展语用学提供了一个新范式,对语用障碍儿童的治疗和干预具有一定的价值。
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期刊介绍: Since 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has provided a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic scholarship from all perspectives, which contributes to theories of how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts drawing on attested data from a wide range of languages/cultures in different parts of the world. The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that uses attested language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighbouring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. Alongside full-length articles, discussion notes and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics which make a significant contribution to a topical or developing area at the cutting-edge of research.
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