A Question of Answers: Volume II - Brossura

Robinson, W. P.; Rackstraw, Susan J.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1041010591 ISBN 13: 9781041010593

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2026

Riassunto

In the early 1970s, the problem of arousing and maintaining the curiosity of children had been a recurrent theme in reports concerned with the development of new school curricula. However, before these ideas could be translated into soundly based practical measures, an increased understanding of what is involved in the activities of questioning and answering was needed.

Originally published in 1972, the research reported in these two volumes presents a theoretical framework for describing linguistic features of a range of verbally expressed answers and their associated questions. Basil Bernstein’s theory is used to generate a number of predictions about the variety and quality of answers that mothers and children are likely to offer to ‘wh’ questions. The usefulness of the scheme is tested against the answering behaviour of members of different social classes, and, in the main, Bernstein’s predictions are supported. The validity of the categories in the classificatory scheme is explored more fully in later chapters by means of a correlational analysis of the answers of seven-year-old children.

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W. P. Robinson

Susan J. Rackstraw

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1041010591
• ISBN 13: 9781041010593
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 182
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania