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2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Topic Continuation in CHildren's Conversation

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13610160
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 教育・社会系心理学
Research InstitutionShirayuri College (2002-2003)
Kawamura Gakuen Woman's University (2001)

Principal Investigator

HATANO Etsuko  Shirayuri College, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (50114921)

Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2003
Keywordstopic continuation / pragmatic negation / development pragmatic / conversation / gesture and speech / laugh in conversation / mutual meaning / internal speech
Research Abstract

A purpose of this project is to study in natural settings how preschool children keep topic continuation in social-interactive conversational situations. Topic continuation along other pragmatic skills is learned in social-interactive conversation situations. Results show as follows in the report of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)(2).
1.The development of pragmatic negation in preschooler's conversation.
Two aspects were studied (1) development of pragmatic functions across languages. and (2) the relationships between forms and functions. This development pattern seems to parallel the general cognitive development of children. All the forms listed in Table 5 met; the criteria for emergence defined above.
Two types of mechanism, with two different temporal relationships between the development of function and the acquisition of form, are suggested by the data.
2.Topic continuation in social-interactive situations.
This research indicates that children under 2:6 make minimal contributions to topic continuation, and gradually they begin to change the expected propositional content. However, topic performance appears to be dependent on communicative partner. place of conversation, physical materials, and shows how children gain these understandings.
3.Gesture and laugh facilitate children's topic continuation in children's conversation.
The data mentioned so far confirmed the existence of the close relationship between verbal activity and the speaker's motor activity Gesture as motor activity conveys meaning by mimetically and idiosyncratically through continuously varying forms.
Finding should contribute to our understanding for the development of children's pragmatic knowledge about conversation. Findings should also provide knowledge to teachers and parents about; preschoolers' knowledge about conversation. This type of information should help design more appropriate intervention techniques to the school children.

  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All Other

All Publications (9 results)

  • [Publications] 秦野 悦子: "幼児の会話における語用論的否定"日本教育心理学会第45回大会発表論文集. 661 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 秦野 悦子: "幼児同士の語用論否定におけることばと行為の関係性"日本心理学会第67回大会発表論文集. 118 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 秦野 悦子: "幼児期のコミュニケーションの育み"教育と医学. 603. 21-29 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Hatano E: "Early Acquisition of Negation in Preverbal to Two-word Utterance Infancy"Proceedings of the Sophia Symposium of Negation. 145-160 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Hatano E: "Support for the Communication in Preschool"Education and Medicine. 21-29 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Hatano E: "Support for Children's Conversation"Bulletin of Shirayuri College. 38. 87-104

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  • [Publications] Hatano E: "Children's Unnatural Conversations in Video Drama"The Congress of the Japanese Language in Society 11^<th>. 166-171 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Hatano E: "Pragmatic Negation in Preschooler's Conversation"The Congress of the Japanese Educational Psychology 45^<th>. 611 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Hatano E: "The Relation between Language and Gesture In Preschooler's Conversation"The Congress of Japanese Psychology 67^<th>. (2003)

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Published: 2005-04-19  

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