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Children's metalinguistic activity in the construction of linguistic existence

dc.contributor.authorSousa, Otília
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-03T14:21:40Z
dc.date.available2013-09-03T14:21:40Z
dc.date.issued1999-06
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we examine the construction of first entities in narratives produced by children of 5, 7, 10 years and adults1 . The study demonstrates that when children reformulate they try to construct entities detached from the situation of enunciation, which means that they construct a detached or a translated plane and they construct linguistic existence of entities. Entities must first be introduced into the enunciative space and then comments will be made in subsequent utterances. Constructing existence supposes extraction. This consists of “singling out an occurrence, that is, isolating and drawing its spatiotemporal boundaries” (Culioli, 1990, p. 182) . Once the occurrence of the notion is constructed (which means it has become a separate occurrence with situational properties), children can predicate about it. However, there are children who do not construct the linguistic existence of entities. I hypothesize that the mode of task presentation influences the success of constructing linguistic existence. Sharing the investigator’s knowledge about the stimulus images, children do not ascribe an existential status to the occurrence of the notional domain.por
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/2655
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.titleChildren's metalinguistic activity in the construction of linguistic existencepor
dc.typejournal article
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person.givenNameOtília
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