Offering alternatives as a way of issuing directives to children: Putting the worse option last
(2015)
Journal Article
Antaki, C., & Kent, A. (2015). Offering alternatives as a way of issuing directives to children: Putting the worse option last. Journal of Pragmatics, 25 -38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2015.01.004
In a corpus of c. 250 h of recorded interactions between young children and adults in USA and UK households, we found that children could be directed to change their course of action by three syntactic formats that offered alternatives: an imperative... Read More about Offering alternatives as a way of issuing directives to children: Putting the worse option last.