A Developmental Study of Children''s Use of Discourse Marker ''Hao''
碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 語言學研究所 === 88 === This study is to investigate the developmental stages of using the discourse marker hao by children from age 3 to 5. The first use of hao emerges when the child is 3 years and 2 months old. The data are analyzed on the basis of Schiffrin''s (1987) discours...
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2000
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| Online Access: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25983259757852916370 |
| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 語言學研究所 === 88 === This study is to investigate the developmental stages of using the discourse marker hao by children from age 3 to 5. The first use of hao emerges when the child is 3 years and 2 months old. The data are analyzed on the basis of Schiffrin''s (1987) discourse coherence model as well as Miracle''s (1991) and my own classification.
It is predicted that discourse marker hao for children at first marks either the exchange or action levels (local) and then the ideational level (global) of discourse. The results show that 3-year-old children''s uses of hao occur in the action and exchange structure (local) of Schiffrin''s model. 4-year-old children utilize hao in the action and exchange structure as well as the information state. 5-year-old children employ hao in the action and exchange structure, information state, and the ideational structure (global). This suggests that the 5-year-old children are more skilled in utilizing hao as a discourse marker than the 4-year-old subjects who in turn are better than the 3-year-old ones. The reason is that children at their fourth year have the ability to organize and manage knowledge and meta-knowledge in the cognitive state. In the fifth year, children acquire the concept of cohesion which can upgrade their discourse level from the local to the global.
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