Relating Events in Narrative : A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study

ISBN-13: 9780805814354 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 764 str.

Ruth Aronson Berman;Berman; Ruth A. Berman

Opis

This volume represents the culmination of an extensive research project that studies the development of linguistic form/function relations in narrative discourse. It is unique in the extent of data which it analyzes - more than 250 texts from children and adults speaking five different languages - and in its crosslinguistic, typological focus. It addresses the issue of how the structural properties and rhetorical preferences of different native languages - English German, Spanish, Hebrew and Turkish - impinge on narrative abilities across different phases of development.

Recenzje

"This book has been long awaited by students of narrative development, child language acquisition, and cross-linguistic comparisons of language development....an important resource for anyone who wants to study or understand narrative (form and function)....This book constitutes a fundamental and important piece of work. All the authors are to be congratulated."
—TESL-EJ

"Focusing on crosslinguistic and typological aspects, this volume is a pioneering work that painstakingly addresses the issues of how the structural properties and rhetorical preferences of different native languages have an effect on narrative discourse abilities across different stages of language/narrative development."
—Journal of Narrative and Life History

"It is a book full of attention to linguistic forms, but written not only for linguists. Its importance comes from the rich and detailed data, and the distinction between what is age-specific--cognitive and communicative side of narrative activity, understanding of ample hierarchies of events--and what is language-specific in narrative activity."
—First Language

"This book is therefore of great value for anyone with a professional interest in a more detailed treatment of how linguistic conventions are acquired in different language communities and how the particular features of their language uniquely contribute to this process."
—Studies in School Language Acquisition

"This book represents a major achievement by the two editors and it reflects the depth and breadth of experience in developmental crosslinguistic research for which they are both so well-known....the book clearly and convincingly demonstrates an increase in the complexity of 'narrative packaging' as children develop. This is, of course, relatively well known, but this book supports and extends this with a wealth of rich detail, crosslinguistic range and insight....I have no doubt that this is one of the most useful and informative books on the development of narrative structure to have appeared in a very long time."
—Functions of Language

Spis treści

Contents: R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Preface. Part I:Introduction. R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Different Ways of Relating Events: Introduction to the Study. R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Research Goals and Procedures. Part II:Development of Functions. R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Narrative Structure. T. Trabasso, P. Rodkin, Knowledge of Goal/Plans: A Conceptual Basis for Narrating Frog, Where Are You? Part III:Development of Linguistic Forms. R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Overview of the Linguistic Forms in the Frog Stories. R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Development of Linguistic Forms: English. M. Bamberg, Development of Linguistic Forms: German. E. Sebastián, D.I. Slobin, Development of Linguistic Forms: Spanish. R.A. Berman, Y. Neeman, Development of Linguistic Forms: Hebrew. A.A. Aksu-Koç, Development of Linguistic Forms: Turkish. Part IV:Development of Form-Function Relations. R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Form-Function Relations in the Development of Narrative. A.A. Aksu-Koç, C. von Stutterheim, Temporal Relations in Narrative: Simultaneity. L. Dasinger, C. Toupin, The Development of Relative Clause Functions in Narrative. R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Filtering and Packaging in Narrative. M. Bamberg, V. Marchman, Foreshadowing and Wrapping Up in Narrative. Part V:Conclusions. R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Implications. R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Becoming a Proficient Speaker. R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Becoming a Native Speaker. Appendices: M. Mayer, Pictures: Frog, Where Are You? R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Glossing and Transcription Conventions. R.A. Berman, D.I. Slobin, Research Using Frog, Where Are You?

O autorze

Ruth A. Berman Department of Linguistics Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv, Israel. Dan I. Slobin Department of Psychology University of California Berkeley, CA.