title: Conventionality in family conversations about everyday objects.
abstract: Children's developing understanding that words have conventional meanings and objects have conventional functions emerges in parent-child activity and conversation. Drawing on family conversations in everyday settings, the chapter explores an apparent paradox between a global analysis of conventionality as stable shared knowledge and a local notion of conventions as flexibly negotiated in activity.
authors: University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
authors: Maureen A
authors: MA
authors: Callanan
authors: Deborah R
authors: DR
authors: Siegel
authors: Megan R
authors: MR
authors: Luce
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D003210:Concept Formation; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D012931:Social Environment; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014825:Vocabulary