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Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar

Drawing on recent work in developmental and comparative psychology, this paper argues that demonstratives function to coordinate the interlocutors' joint focus of attention, which is one of the most basic functions of human communication...

Keywords: demonstratives, joint attention, deixis, pointing, grammaticalization, evolution of grammar

12/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter
Participation, affect, and trajectory in family directive/response sequences

Making use of videotapes of family interaction, this paper investigates alternative trajectories that develop as parents and children negotiate disputes resulting from directive/response sequences...

Keywords: directives, family interaction, accounts, facing formations, participation, joint attention, disputes

09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter