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Children's Comprehension and Use of Indirect Speech Acts: The Case of Soliciting Praise.

Kovac, Ceil – 1977

Children in school cooperate in the evaluation of their products and activities by teachers and other students by calling attention to these products and activities with various language strategies. The requests that someone notice something and/or praise it are the data base for this study. The unmarked speech act for this request type is in the…

Descriptors: Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, Discourse Analysis