Lebanese/Arabic and American Children's Discourse in Group-Solving Situations

Autor/inn/en	Chami-Sather, Grece; Kretschmer, Richard R., Jr.
Titel	Lebanese/Arabic and American Children's Discourse in Group-Solving Situations
Quelle	In: Language and Education, 19 (2005) 1, S.10-31 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0950-0782
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Verbal Communication; Children; Discourse Analysis; Language Usage; Comparative Analysis; Interpersonal Communication; Group Dynamics; Ethnography; Semantics; Nonverbal Communication; Cultural Differences; Kentucky; Lebanon + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Child; Kind; Kinder; Diskursanalyse; Sprachgebrauch; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Gruppendynamik; Ethnografie; Semantik; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Kultureller Unterschied; Libanon
Abstract	This research describes and analyses the type of verbal discourse and interactions among the children in a group-solving situation. Two groups of five children ages 6, 7 and 8, from two different cultures, were observed: one at an English-speaking summer camp in Beirut, Lebanon, and another at a parallel site, a neighbourhood group in Kentucky, in the United States. The same researcher conducted both studies and English was the language of communication. Audiotapes as well as videotapes and transcriptions were used as means for data collection. A comparative microethnographic analysis was applied to find relationships between the different verbal and nonverbal interactions and interpret the process used by the different cultures in similar situations. The rate and type of utterances as well as nonverbal moves were recorded. Evidence of commonalities between the children's verbal cognitive as well as the semantic aspect of the language was observed. More difference was observed in the nonverbal and perlocutionary acts in some segments of the discourse. Difference was also recorded in the intensity of interactions and the type of utterance and propositions produced during both groups' discourses. (Author).
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