Wednesday 6 November 2024, 3.30PM to 4.30PM
Speaker(s): Yanhong Zhang, University of Science and Technology, China
Chair: Darren Reed
As a common and important social behaviour, accounts frequently appear in social interaction. Accounts can be used to fill information gaps, promote mutual understanding and even justify behaviours that violate social norms. Through an unmotivated observation of parent-child interaction involving children aged 3-6 years, it is found that in some sequences children cannot give accounts or give some inappropriate accounts. In such cases, parents use different ways to help and guide children to provide appropriate accounts.
It shows that children of age 3-6 have not fully learned the social orders behind verbal communication. The corresponding guidance of parents can help them to identify the sequence position where appropriate accounts are needed and finally help them to provide accounts successfully. It is revealed that parent-child interaction is very important and necessary in the process of children’s socialization.
Yanhong Zhang is an associate professor at School of Foreign Languages, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China. She focused on conversation analysis on positive assessments in her PhD study under the guidance of Professor Guodong Yu.
Currently her research interest is children’s socialization in parent-child daily interactions. Yanhong is currently visiting York, under the auspices of the Language and Social Interaction research cluster and the interdisciplinary centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication.
Location: Online