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Title: | Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!: Object requests, ownership and entitlement in a children's play session | Contributor(s): | Dixon, Sally (author) | Publication Date: | 2015-06 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.pragma.2015.03.009 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30103 | Abstract: | The exchange of objects is a ubiquitous feature of children's play. Yet we know little about how children choose amongst the plethora of strategies at their disposal for getting and maintaining control of objects in the play space. In the present study, the methods of conversation analysis are applied to reveal Aboriginal children in remote Central Australia relying heavily on two 'toy getting' strategies: 'gimme' requests and grabs. Both strategies carry with them an expectation of compliance. The analysis will reveal that in the play session, this expectation of compliance arises from two situational factors: who owns the toy at the time of the request, and the request-maker's 'entitlement' to have the toy. The former can be signalled by various in-turn design features such as assertions of ownership, possessive pronouns and a range of justifications which point to various ownership rights. Entitlement is justified with explicit or tacit reference to 'rules of the game'. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Grant Details: | ARC/DP0877762 | Source of Publication: | Journal of Pragmatics, v.82, p. 39-51 | Publisher: | Elsevier BV | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 0378-2166 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200319 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) 200403 Discourse and Pragmatics |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 450108 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander linguistics and languages 470411 Sociolinguistics 470405 Discourse and pragmatics |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages: | C14 Alyawarr | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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