This study looks at whether untrained observers are able to ‘read’ children's gestures, particularly those that do not match the child's speech...
Schlagworte: children, gestures, mismatches, learning interpretation
02/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterIdiosyncratic comments or questions in classrooms are often considered errors or indicate that the learner was off-task...
Schlagworte: meaning-making, children, affordance, unlimited semiosis, learning, rhizome
04/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterDrawing from a corpus of naturalistic videotaped data documenting everyday activities of 32 middle-class dual-earner families in Los Angeles, California, this article explores children's bedtime routines as an interactional matrix for carrying out culturally salient relational work, illustrating how family members co-participate in a ‘discourse of anticipation’ that prepares for—yet simultaneously forestalls—the moment of bedtime separation...
Schlagworte: children, closing routines, conversation analysis, family communication, language socialization, relational work
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterDrawing from a corpus of naturalistic videotaped data documenting everyday activities of 32 middle-class dual-earner families in Los Angeles, California, this article explores children's bedtime routines as an interactional matrix for carrying out culturally salient relational work, illustrating how family members co-participate in a ‘discourse of anticipation’ that prepares for—yet simultaneously forestalls—the moment of bedtime separation...
Schlagworte: children, closing routines, conversation analysis, family communication, language socialization, relational work
09/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterA content analysis of 601 commercials was conducted in order to identify the appeals that characterize commercials aimed at children and teenagers...
Schlagworte: advertising, children, teenagers, content analysis, gender differences, gender-role stereotypes
10/2002 | Communications, Walter de GruyterUsing telephone interviews among a random sample of 537 Dutch children aged 712 years old, we investigated (a) the prevalence of fear reactions to television news among younger and older children and among boys and girls, (b) what types of news items children in different age and gender groups refer to as frightening, and (c) whether children's fear reactions to regular adult television news differed from their fear reactions to a special children's news program...
Schlagworte: children, media, fear, fright reactions, TV news
10/2002 | Communications, Walter de GruyterKijkwijzer is the name of the new Dutch rating system in use since early 2001 to provide information about the possible harmful effects of movies, home videos and television programs on young people...
Schlagworte: AV media, children, AV content, media ratings, media classification
06/2002 | Communications, Walter de GruyterIn both the academic and societal debates, it is widely assumed that cognitive advertising defenses can reduce children's susceptibility to advertising effects...
Schlagworte: advertising effects, advertising literacy, children, cognitive advertising defenses
01/2009 | Communications, Walter de GruyterThe aim of this study was to construct a closed-end measure of moral reasoning on interpersonal violence (CEMRIV) and to explore the relationship between television exposure and children's use of moral reasoning strategies...
Schlagworte: moral reasoning, moral development, television, television violence, children
01/2009 | Communications, Walter de Gruyter