Dialogues between French‐speaking mothers and daughters in two cultures: France and Quebec

Bernicot, Josie; Comeau, Judith; Feider, Helga

doi:10.1080/01638539409544882

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“…The next 15 min were coded. Speaking turns were determined on the basis of two criteria: a change of speaker and/or silence for more than 2 s. To delineate the utterances, we used the grid devised by Bernicot, Comeau, and Feider (1994).…”

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Narration and collaborative conversation in French-speaking children with Williams syndrome

Lacroix

Bernicot

Reilly

2007

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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Narration and collaborative conversation in French-speaking children with Williams syndrome

Lacroix

Bernicot

Reilly

2007

Journal of Neurolinguistics

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“…The interviews were transcribed and segmented into speaking turns and utterances in accordance with the dialogue segmentation criteria previously used by Bernicot et al (1994). A speaking turn ended whenever one or both of the following events occurred: a change of speaker, or a pause of more than two seconds (Sacks et al 1974).…”

Section: Coding Of Speaking Turns and Utterances (Measures Of Speech mentioning

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Communication deficits: assessment of subjects with frontal lobe damage in an interview setting

Bernicot

2001

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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This paper is about communication deficits in an interview setting among adolescents with frontal lobe damage. One of the predominant characteristics of these patients is difficulty taking the context into account. Pragmatic theories, which attempt to clarify the link between the formal structure of language and the extra‐linguistic context (such as the interlocutor's characteristics or strategies), may help provide insight into the difficulties of these patients. An interview setting, viewed here as a communication situation, is governed by an interaction format based on specific cooperative principles. In this study, the results of subjects with frontal lobe damage (in the role of interviewee) were first compared with those of normal subjects in an interview situation. Three pragmatic indexes were considered: the number of utterances per speaking turn (speech quantity), amount of digression (keeping to the topic or predefined subject of conversation shared by the interlocutors) and prevalence of withinsubject contingency speaking turns without an intervening remark by the interviewer (topic development). Secondly, we attempted to determine whether the patients’ discourse was dependent upon the interviewer's conversational strategy (structured, non‐structured, or alternating). The results clearly point out the extent of the difficulty frontal lobe patients have conforming to the rules of the interview situation, whether regarding the amount of speech they produce or their ability to keep within and/or development of the topic of conversation. The data also indicated that the patients’ linguistic productions varied with the interviewer's strategy. The structured strategy did not always give rise to the best performance: while the unstructured and alternating strategies allowed patients to produce more utterances per speaking turn, the alternating strategy enabled better development of the interview topic. These results suggest that such variations could be put to fruitful use in remedial techniques.

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“…Both French and Japanese mothers emphasized dyad-focused responsiveness, and French mothers in particular defined their task as providing security and support. A more recent study of culturally determined maternal responsiveness (Bernicot et al 1994) focused on somewhat older French-speaking preschool children interacting with their mothers in Canada (expected to be more American-like in their way of interacting) and in France, and documented significant pragmatic diversity within each group. The contribution of culture in their findings differed according to the pragmatic measure considered.…”

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Narratives and explanations during mealtime conversations in Norway and the U.S.

Aukrust¹,

Snow²

1998

Lang. Soc.

135

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Mealtimes reveal culturally specific ways of talking, and constitute opportunities for socialization of children into those ways. In 22 Norwegian families and 22 American families, matched for age and gender of preschoolaged child and for participant constellation, mealtimes were examined for the occurrence and type of narrative and explanatory talk. All indices suggested that the Norwegian families produced more narrative talk -in particular, talk about minor deviations from social scripts -whereas the American families produced more explanatory talk, particularly talk focused on explanations for physical events or for individual behaviors. When Norwegian families gave explanations, they were likely to be focused on social norms and deviations from them, like their narratives. The results are interpreted in relation to the Norwegian cultural values of mitigated collectivism, egalitarianism, homogeneity, and implicit social rules, in contrast to American values of individualism, diversity, and explicit formulation and transmission of civic values. (Socialization, culture, narrative, explanation, family, mealtimes, Norway, USA.)* In this article we consider children's acquisition of ways of speaking during family mealtime conversations in Norway and the US. The study of language socialization rests on two assumptions about ordinary talk: first, that it is a culturally organized feature of social life in every society, and second, that it is a major mechanism of socialization. In several recent studies, meals have been found to expose children to a wide range of culturally molded speech genres -

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Dialogues between French‐speaking mothers and daughters in two cultures: France and Quebec

Cited by 17 publications

References 31 publications

Narration and collaborative conversation in French-speaking children with Williams syndrome

Narration and collaborative conversation in French-speaking children with Williams syndrome

Communication deficits: assessment of subjects with frontal lobe damage in an interview setting

Narratives and explanations during mealtime conversations in Norway and the U.S.

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