<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper discusses the communicative competence of deaf children. It illustrates the process in which such children build narrative texts in interaction with a deaf teacher, and presents the diversity of this process due to the shared vs. non-shared perception of a picture - the source of the topic. Detailed analyses focus on the formal and semantic aspect of the stories, including the length of the text in sign language, the content selected, information categories, and types of answers to the teacher’s questions. This text is our contribution in memory of Professor Grace Wales Shugar, whose idea of dual agentivity of child-adult interaction inspired the research presented here.</p></abstract>

This paper discusses the communicative competence of deaf children. It illustrates the process in which such children build narrative texts in interaction with a deaf teacher, and presents the diversity of this process due to the shared vs. non-shared perception of a picture - the source of the topic. Detailed analyses focus on the formal and semantic aspect of the stories, including the length of the text in sign language, the content selected, information categories, and types of answers to the teacher’s questions. This text is our contribution in memory of Professor Grace Wales Shugar, whose idea of dual agentivity of child-adult interaction inspired the research presented here.

Deaf Children Building Narrative Texts. Effect of Adult-Shared vs. Non-Shared Perception of a Picture Story

University of Warsaw University of Warsaw

University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Psychology of Language and Communication

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This paper discusses the communicative competence of deaf children. It illustrates the process in which such children build narrative texts in interaction with...

Deaf Children Building Narrative Texts. Effect of Adult-Shared vs. Non-Shared Perception of a Picture Story

Published Online: Aug 28, 2014

Page range: 149 - 177

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0012

Keywords
narrative text, narrative discourse, deaf children, sign language, information categories, old-new content

© by Barbara Bokus

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Deaf Children Building Narrative Texts. Effect of Adult-Shared vs. Non-Shared Perception of a Picture Story

Published Online: Aug 28, 2014

Page range: 149 - 177

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0012

Keywordsnarrative text, narrative discourse, deaf children, sign language, information categories, old-new content

© by Barbara Bokus

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
narrative text, narrative discourse, deaf children, sign language, information categories, old-new content