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- Title
Negation in Early Child Communication (Remarks on Linguistic Analysis).
- Authors
Římalová, Lucie Saicová
- Abstract
This paper analyses broadly defined negation in early child communication. It offers a semantically--based linguistic analysis that studies the interaction between the child and other people (mostly his or her carers). The paper defines negation, discusses the contexts in which it is expressed, and analyses both verbal and nonverbal means of its expression. It observes various facets of negation and the relationship between the different means of expressing it. The analysis is based on a case study of negation in the speech of a Czech-speaking boy during his "one-word" period, that is, from approximately 12 to 18 months of his age. Both verbal and nonverbal means of expression are studied, but attention is focused on verbal means of expression, such as ne ('no'), ne ne, and není ('it/there is not' etc.), that form a specific system. During the studied period, ne is used to express protest or rejection, ne ne is connected with meanings such as 'dangerous' or 'undesirable', and není refers to changes of state or perception. The analysis is a part of wider longitudinal research in the language production of Czech-speaking children that uses video recordings of the interaction between the child and his or her carers in a natural environment, in some cases combined with a parental diary; the methodology of the video data collection is analogous to that used by a Slovak research group led by D. Slančová.
- Subjects
COMMUNICATIVE competence in children; SEMANTICS; LINGUISTIC analysis; NEGATION (Logic) in children; SPOKEN Czech
- Publication
Studies in Applied Linguistics / Studie z Aplikované Lingvistiky, 2013, Issue 2, p7
- ISSN
1804-3240
- Publication type
Article