Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children

Special Issue of Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1 (2012)

Editors

Zhu Hua | Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Lixian Jin | De Montfort University, UK

[Chinese Language and Discourse, 3:1] 2012. v, 127 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 19 July 2012

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/cld.3.1

Table of Contents

Introduction
Development of pragmatic and discourse skills in Chinese-speaking children Zhu Hua and Lixian Jin	1–11
Articles
The pragmatic function of self/other reference in Mandarin child language Chiung-chih Huang	13–34
Tense and temporality: How young children express time in Cantonese Shek Kam Tse, Hui Li and Shing On Leung	35–56
Maternal affective input in mother–child interaction: A cross-cultural perspective Zhuo Jing-Schmidt	57–89
Do educational backgrounds make a difference? A comparative study on communicative acts of Chinese mothers in interacting with their young children Jing Zhou and Lixian Jin	90–108
Chinese preschool children’s comprehension of a picture storybook Linhui Li, Jing Zhou, Baogen Liu and Xiaomei Gao	109–127

Subjects

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Discourse studies

Sino-Tibetan languages