Leveraging the Occasion to Resist
A Young Child's Noncompliant Responses to Requests for Actions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19554530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yvonne Tse Crepaldi (0000-0002-0018-3156, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), Kang-Kwong Luke, Kang Kwong Luke (0000-0002-2883-3659, Nanyang Technological University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research on Children and Social Interaction (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2057-5807 • E-ISSN: 2057-5815 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/rcsi-2024-0007 |
| OpenAlex | W4413395798 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
This paper investigates how a 2-year-old child grapples with caregivers' requests for action (‘directives’). Video recordings, totaling 7.5 hours, from a trilingual (Italian-Mandarin-English) household were examined using Conversation Analysis. Close examination revealed that the young child, during the age of 2;0–2;5 years, may not immediately respond with negation tokens such as “no” and “I don't want.” Instead, he displays preoccupation with an ongoing or an alternative activity, or diverts the caregiver's attention through accounting, summons, and counter-requests. These practices demonstrate the child's ability to fit his responses to the occasion, foreshadowing and legitimizing his noncompliance. However, the outcome of these noncompliance attempts depends on interactional efforts from both parties. These findings showcase early pragmatic competence in formulating dispreferred responses, highlighting the emerging social skill of children, and contributing to the growing body of research on early social understanding
Nanotechnology · Resist · Computer Science · Early Childhood Education and Development · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Materials Science · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |