Development of the use of lexical cohesive devices in the Persian-speaking children

زبانشناسی و گویش های خراسان

Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 10, July 2014, Pages 1-23   

Document Type: علمی - پژ‍وهشی

DOI: 10.22067/lj.v6i10.40337

Authors

Iran Mehrabi Sari^* ; Mohammad Dabirmoghaddam

Allameh Tabatabaee

Abstract

In this study an adaptation of Halliday and Hasan's (1976) description of cohesion in English was applied to the spoken narratives of typical developing children. Regarding the development in grammatical cohesion, Narrations of 3 groups of children 4;00 to 7;00 years of age, 5 in each age group, were analyzed and compared with each other. This research applies an experimental method.To evaluate their abilities in discourse organization through the use of lexical cohesive devices, two tests were performed, story retelling and story production using two different story-books. The results of the research showed a development in lexical cohesion between these age groups over time.

Keywords

: "grammatical cohesion"; "narration"; "discourse organization"; "cohesive devices"; "retelling"

References

کردبچه چگینی، مریم.(1391). تأثیر قصّه‌گویی بر انسجام و پیوستگی دست‌نوشته‌های کودکان، پایان‌نامه کارشناسی ارشد، پژوهشگاه مطالعات علوم انسانی

معصومی، علی.(1391). قصّه‌گویی وتحلیل گفتمان گفتاری کودکان دبستانی، پایان‌نامه کارشناسی ارشد، پژوهشگاه مطالعات علوم انسانی

Applebee, A. (1978). The child’s concept of story. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago press.

Bamberg, M. (1987). The acquisition of narratives: Learning to use language. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Berman, R. A., &Slobin, D. I. (1994). Relating events in narrative: A cross- linguistic developmental study. Hilldale, NJ: Lawerence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.

Bloom, L., & Lahey, M. (1978). Language development and language disorders. New York: Wiley.

Botting, N.(2002).Child Language Teaching and Therapy. Oxford: Blackwell

Chan, K. (2000). Effect of media input on cohesion of narrative production in Cantonese speaking children. Bachelor of Sciences (Speech and Hearing Sciences). Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong.

Chang-Ju, C. (2004). Telling stories of experiences: Narrative development of young Chinese children. Journal of Applied psycholinguistics, 25, 83-104.

Crowhurst, M. (1987). Cohesion in argument an narration at three grade level. Research in the Teaching of English,21(2), 101-112.

Ervin-Tripp, S., & Mitchell-Kernan,C. (1977). Introduction. In S. Ervinn-Tripp & C. Mitchell-Kernan (Eds.), Child Discourse, 17, 1-26. New York: Academic.

Gumperz, J., & Kyratzis, S. (2005) Making space for bilingual communicative practice. Intercultural Pragmatics 2(1), 1-24

Halliday, M., &Hasan, R. (1976). Cohesion in English. London: Longman.

Hedberg, N., & Westby, C. (1993). Analyzing storytelling skills: Theory to practice. Tucson: Communication Skill Builders.

Hendrickson V. and Shapiro, L. (2001). Cohesive reference devices in children's personal narratives. Journal of Psychological Inquiry, 6(1), 17-22.

Hickmann, M. (1995). Discourse organization and the development of reference to person, space and time. In Fletcher, P. & MacWhinney, The Handbook of Child Language. Oxford: Blackwell.

Hickmann, M., & Hendriks, H. (1999). Cohesion and anaphora in children’s narratives: A comparison of English, French, German, and Mandarin Chinese. Journal of Child Language, 26, 419-52.

Hickmann, M. (2007). Motion and location in French: A developmental and cross-linguistic perspective. In Fletcher, P. & MacWhinney (eds.), the categorization of spatial entities in language and cognition (205-231). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Hudson.J. A., & Shapiro, L . R. (1991). From knowing to telling: The development of children's scripts, stories and personal narratives. Developmental Psychology, 27(6), 66-79.

Hymes, D. (1972). On communicative competence. J. B. Pride and J. Holmes, (eds.) Journal of Sociolinguistics, 19,269-93.

Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1992). Beyond modularity: A developmental perspective on cognitive science. Cambridge: Bradford Book, MIT Press.

Kail, M., & Hickmann, M. (1992). French children’s ability to introduce referents in narratives as a function of mutual knowledge. Journal of First Language, 12, 73-81.

Leaper, C. (1991). Influence and involvement in children's discourse: Age, gender, and partner effects. Journal of Child Development, 62, 792-811.

Lieven, E. & Plank, M. (2006). Language development. An Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Elsevier.

Liles, B. (1993). Narrative discourse in children with language disorders and children with normal language: A critical review of the literature. Journal of speech and hearing research, 36, 868-882.

Liles, B. (1985). Cohesion in the narratives of normal and language-disordered children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 28,123-33.

Merritt, D. D. & Liles, B. Z. (1989). Narrative analysis: Clinical applications of story generation and story retelling. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders 54, 438–47.

Paul, R., & Smith, R. (1993). Narrative skills in 4-year-olds with normal, impaired, and late developing language. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 36, 592 -198.

Peterson, C. & Dodsworth, P. (1991). A longitudinal analysis of young children's cohesion and noun specification in narratives. Journal of Child Language,18, 397-415

Ripich, D. & Griffith, P. (1988). Narrative abilities of children with learning disabilities and non-disabled children: story structure, cohesion and propositions. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 21(3), 165-173.

Schiefflin, B. & Gilmore P. (1986). The acquisition of literacy: Ethnographic perspectives Norwood, NJ: Ablex

Schneider, P. &Dube, R.( 1997). Effect of pictorial versus oral story presentation on children's stories. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 13, 170-190.

Shapiro, L. R., & Hudson, J. A. (1997). Coherence and cohesion in children's picture- elicited narratives. Developmental Psychology, 27,960-974.

Wigglesworth, G. (1997). Children's individual approaches of narrative .Journal of Child Language, 24, 279-309.

Wing, C. (2002).Age and medium effects on the production of conjunctions in narratives by Cantonese-speaking children, Journal of Speech and Hearing Sciences, 17, 66-80.