Preschool Children's Discourse Competence in Different Genres and How It Relates to Iconic Gestures
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| Title: | Preschool Children's Discourse Competence in Different Genres and How It Relates to Iconic Gestures |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Friederike Kern (ORCID |
| Source: | Journal of Child Language. 2024 51(3):656-680. |
| Availability: | Cambridge University Press. 100 Brook Hill Drive, West Nyack, NY 10994. Tel: 800-872-7423; Tel: 845-353-7500; Fax: 845-353-4141; e-mail: subscriptions_newyork@cambridge.org; Web site: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 25 |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Preschool Children, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Competence, Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S030500092300065X |
| ISSN: | 0305-0009 1469-7602 |
| Abstract: | Based on the linguistic analysis of game explanations and retellings, the paper's goal is to investigate the relation of preschool children's situated discourse competence and iconic gestures in different communicative genres, focussing on reinforcing and supplementary speech-gesture-combinations. To this end, a method was developed to evaluate discourse competence as a context-sensitive and interactively embedded phenomenon. The so-called GLOBE-model was adapted to assess discourse competence in relation to interactive scaffolding. The findings show clear links between the children's competence and their parents' scaffolding. We suggest this to be evidence of a fine-tuned interactive support system. The results also indicate strong relations between higher discourse competence and increased frequency of iconic gestures. This applies in particular to reinforcing gestures. The results are interpreted as a confirmation that the speech-gesture system undergoes systematic changes during early childhood, and that gesturing becomes more iconic -- and thus more communicative -- when discourse competence is growing. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2025 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1485714 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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