Expressing Communicative Intents in Estonian, Finnish, and Swedish Mother-Adolescent Interactions

Autor/inn/en	Tulviste, Tiia; Mizera, Luule; De Geer, Boel
Titel	Expressing Communicative Intents in Estonian, Finnish, and Swedish Mother-Adolescent Interactions
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 31 (2004) 4, S.801-819 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000904006488
Schlagwörter	Interpersonal Communication; Intention; Parent Child Relationship; Mothers; Early Adolescents; Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Children; Child Rearing; Child Behavior; Social Values; Cultural Influences; Bilingualism; Estonia; Finland; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interpersonale Kommunikation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mother; Mutter; Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Kindererziehung; Sozialer Wert; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Bilingualismus; Estland; Finnland; Schweden
Abstract	The present article focused on two types of communicative intent (directing behaviour vs. eliciting talk) expressed by mothers and teenagers during everyday family interactions in Estonian, Finnish, and Swedish mono- and bicultural families. Three monocultural groups consisted of 17 Estonian, 19 Swedish, and 18 Finnish families living in their country of origin; two bicultural and bilingual groups consisted of 18 Estonian and 18 Finnish families residing in Sweden. All the children were between 9;0 and 13;0. The results revealed that the Estonian monocultural mothers were highly directive and direct: issuing behavioural directives most frequently and using the highest proportion of imperatives among all samples. Contrary to our expectations, the mothers who tended to be more concerned with controlling their children's behaviour also elicited conversation more frequently from teenagers by using a larger number of information requests. These requests seemed to serve as another form of attempted control over adolescents' behaviour--their communicative behaviour. The Swedish monocultural children were more active in controlling their mothers' behaviour than their counterparts, possibly illustrating the Swedish value of generational equality. (Contains 1 footnote.) [This research was supported by the Baltic Sea Foundation in Sweden and the Estonian Science Foundation.] (Author).
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