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Ariaux-Marraux, Isabelle – Langages, 1980
Analyzes in detail the expressions used by 39 grade school children explaining--in writing--the rules of a ball game. The analysis focuses on the linguistic strategies employed to define the actors and the actions of the game and establishes correlations between these strategies and the sociocultural background of the writers. (MES)
Descriptors: Child Language, Childrens Games, Communicative Competence (Languages), French
Lambelin, Genevieve; Brossard, Michel – Langages, 1980
Challenges the hypothesis that different linguistic codes are specifically related to different social groups, observing that children's language usage shows qualitative differences determined by the situations they face rather than by their sociocultural background. Supports this observation with an analysis of children's attempts to explain the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Childrens Games, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
