池田 彩夏（教務補佐員）
タイトル Sensitivity to linguistic registers in Japanese children（発表練習）
要旨
| In order to become a mature language user, children need to acquire not only language abilities, but also communicative competences. One of the communicative competences is to use linguistic registers, which reflects changes in speech that depend on the situation, especially the status of listeners and listener-speaker relationships. If a register selection error was made, the error may sometimes be interpreted as rude behavior and make a bad impression to the others. That is, the linguistic registers help in smooth communication with others and therefore it is necessary to acquire them at a certain point during development. In this presentation, I will report two studies about children’s sensitivity to linguistic registers. The first study examined a sprout of understanding of the linguistic register rules in toddlers. The second study examined older children’s understanding of a meaning of a register selection in social situations and their evaluation of people who make errors in register selection. The development of understanding of linguistic registers will be discussed. |