Conventionality in family conversations about everyday objects.
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.
Callanan
Maureen A
MA
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Siegel
Deborah R
DR
Luce
Megan R
MR
D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D003210:Concept Formation; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D012931:Social Environment; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014825:Vocabulary