Chapter 6 Conclusion
6.2 Limitations and suggestions
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higher status roles to control the topics (Chen & Liu, 2009). Children’s use of such a marker related to high status roles may cause damage to their relations with peers. On the contrary, the children chose the other discourse marker, dui, to signal topic shifts when talking to peers. It is concluded that Mandarin-speaking children’s use of hao and dui not only demonstrates their communicative skills but also reflects the particular nature of peer interaction.
6.2 Limitations and suggestions
Despite all the findings, the study remained some room for improvements and further studies. First of all, the present study focused only on two discourse markers, hao and dui, in Mandarin children’s peer conversation. Future research could examine the children’s use of other frequently appearing discourse markers and make a comparison between their uses of the various functions of these markers. Second, the study investigated only 5-year-old children’s language ability. Longitudinal or cross-sectional data would also need to be collected to explore Mandarin-speaking children’s language development. Moreover, as previous studies suggested, contexts, relations between interlocutors, as well as age and gender, all have an effect on children’s choices of discourse markers. Therefore, to get an overall picture of Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of the various functions of discourse markers, it is essential to take these factors into consideration. However, the present study has shed light on how Mandarin children’s use of discourse markers may reflect the nature of peer interaction. To get a more detailed understanding of Mandarin-speaking children’s social recognition, it would be needed to take an in-depth look
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into the roles discourse markers, or other linguistic devices, may play in various social contexts.
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Appendix A
Transcription conventions and gloss abbreviations
(Adopted from MacWhinney, Brain. 1995. The CHILDES project: Tools for analyzing talk. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.)
Transcription conventions
+… Trailing off
+/. Other-interruption +//. Self-interruption
+^ Quick uptake
-: Previous word lengthened / / Phonetic expression
xxx Unintelligible speech, not treated as a word [/] Retracing without correction
[% text] Comments on main line [=! text] Paralinguistics, prosodics Gloss abbreviations
ASP Aspect marker
CL Classifier
PREP Preposition
PRT Discourse particle
RES Resultative
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