Turkish Preschool Children’s Pragmatic Competence on Apologies

The Influence of Sociolinguistic Factors and Contextual Variables

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20495396
AutoresÖzge Gül ZEREY (Mersin Üniversitesi), Hatice Sofu (0000-0002-0436-5360, Cukurova University)
Año2021
Volumen32
Número3
Páginas17-42
Fecha de publicación2021-12-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1300-8552 • E-ISSN: 2587-0939
EditorialJournal of Linguistics Research (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18492/dad.754467
OpenAlexW4207072885
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas25

This study explores Turkish preschool children’s pragmatic competence with regard to their apology realization patterns. Children’s meta-pragmatic knowledge of apologies was tested and two different age groups (4;0-4;11 and 5;0-6;0) (N=100) were compared to trace possible developmental trends with increasing age in terms of complexity, variety and type of strategies they utilized. Additionally, all the children were grouped according to gender in order to detect the potential effect of this factor on children’s apologizing behaviors. Finally, the range of children’s socio-pragmatic skills was evidenced by tracing their sensitivity in their strategy usage to the severity of the offense as a contextual variable which has a potential effect on speakers’ manner of apologizing. Eight offence scenarios were designed and implemented in the form of Oral Discourse Completion Task (ODCT). The responses were transcribed and phrases for apologizing were classified into categories. The results indicated similarities and differences when compared to adult-usage and children’s tendencies in other languages

Developmental psychology · Linguistics · Turkish · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology