Gender differences in early mother‐child interactions
Talking about an imminent event
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11274105 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Eisenmann (Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 309-335 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Processes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01638539709545017 |
| OpenAlex | W2120907697 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
In recent years the investigation of early mother‐child conversations has demonstrated that mothers differ in their ways of organizing events and actions with their children. Two different styles have been identified. Some mothers show an elaborative or narrative style; they hold long, detailed conversations, embedding the events or actions in a broader experiential context. Other mothers show a paradigmatic, repetitive or low‐elaborative style; they hold short conversations in which they only focus on some aspects of the events or actions, asking the same questions over and over. Very recently these stylistic differences were linked to the gender of the child, revealing that mothers are more elaborative with daughters than with sons. The present study examines maternal modes of organizing an imminent emotional event, a brief separation from the child. Twenty‐five mother‐child dyads were videotaped at four time points when the children were 17, 23, 30 and 36 months of age. Consistent with the research on mothers’ styles of reminiscing with their children and commenting on ongoing events and actions, the mothers’ displayed two different ways of structuring the future event, and these different modes could be related statistically to the gender of the child. Two additional exploratory case studies investigated how the mother directs the child's mental processes by using augments of speech actions, intonation contours and pauses
Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Event (particle physics · Interpersonal communication · Intonation (linguistics · Linguistics · Narrative · Style (visual arts · Child and Animal Learning Development · Early Childhood Education and Development · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology · Social Psychology
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Discourse Markers
Play Behavior in the Year-Old Infant
Mother-child conversations about the past
Texte und Diskurse. Methoden und Forschungsergebnisse der Funktionalen Pragmatik
Grammatiktheorie und sprachliches Handeln
Parental styles of narrative elicitation
Sex of Infant Differences in Mother-Infant Interaction
Gender and Emotion in Mother-Child Conversations About the Past
Remembering and Telling
Family talk about talk
Remembering and planning talk between mothers and children
Storytelling as a theory‐building activity
Style and structure in mother‐child conversations about the past
The Development of Communicative Competence of Securely and Insecurely Attached Children in Interactions with Their Mothers
Developing Narrative Structure
Parent–child interaction and the acquisition of lexical information during play
Mothers and two-year-olds
Parental styles of talking about the past
Conversations about feeling states between mothers and their young children
Learning to describe past experiences in conversation∗
Narratives from the Crib
Remarks on the empirical analysis of action and speech
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |