Keel2015

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Keel2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Keel2015
Author(s) Sara Keel
Title Young children’s embodied pursuits of a response to their initial assessments
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Tag(s) EMCA, Children, Assessments
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Year 2015
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 75
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Pages 1–24
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2014.10.005
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Howpublished
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Abstract

This paper is part of a larger study that looks at the interactive competences young children (2–3 years) deploy in everyday family life. Based on an audiovisual corpus of naturally occurring parent–child interactions, it offers a multimodal analysis of the ways children produce assessments, and how they repeat them if a (satisfactory) response from the recipient is not (immediately) forthcoming. The detailed examination of ten fragments shows that the immediate interactive context provides small children with essential resources for locating recipients’ possible problems in responding to their initial assessments, and organizing their pursuit of a response accordingly. When producing assessments within everyday interactions, children treat them as fundamentally social activities – that make a response from the recipient relevant – instead of dealing with them as mere expressions of their private stance toward an object, an activity or an experience.

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