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Investigating Preschool Children's Metapragmatic Awareness Development through Force-Dynamics Model
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Lulu Cheng; Xiaomeng Xue; Haoran Mao; Yang Gao; Jianxin Zhang; Yanqin Liu – SAGE Open, 2025
This study investigates the development of metapragmatic awareness in preschool children through the lens of Talmy's Force-Dynamics Model. Using conversation data from 60 Mandarin-speaking children aged 4 to 6, obtained from the International Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES), the research employs a custom coding framework to analyze…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Pragmatics, Mandarin Chinese, Age Differences