Title

Ways of Examining Speech Acts in Young African American Children Considering Inside-out and Outside-in Approaches

Authors

Authors

G. DeJarnette; K. O. Rivers;Y. D. Hyter

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Top. Lang. Disord.

Keywords

communicative functions; English speakers; language behavior; pragmatic; behavior; speech acts; young African American; INTELLIGENCE HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE RESEARCH; ENGLISH; PRESCHOOLERS; DIALECT; DISCOURSE; COGNITION; SYNTAX; AGE; Linguistics; Rehabilitation

Abstract

To develop a framework for further study of pragmatic behavior in young children from African American English (AAE) speaking backgrounds, one aspect of pragmatic behavior is explored in this article, specifically, speech acts. The aims of this article are to (1) examine examples of how external taxonomies (i.e., an "etic" or "outside-in" approach) have been applied to the speech act behavior of AAE child speakers and to note that etic approaches alone do not identify cultural characteristics that influence the presentation of speech acts in this population; (2) conceptualize a culture-sensitive framework where components of AAE speech act behaviors can be identified as gleaned from existing linguistic research; and (3) explain the utility of analyses of speech act behavior using taxonomies that have emerged from the cultural language style of AAE speakers, that is, an "emic" or "inside-out" approach.

Journal Title

Topics in Language Disorders

Volume

35

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

61

Last Page

75

WOS Identifier

WOS:000348999300006

ISSN

0271-8294

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