Alison Sparks
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alison Sparks is involved.
Article
2014 Narrative Development across Cultural Contexts: Finding the Pragmatic in Parent-Child Reminiscing Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition, Matthews, Danielle (ed.), pp. 279–294 | Article
Children learn the pragmatic conventions of storytelling during family reminiscing. This chapter discusses differences in narrative development and narrative practices observed during reminiscing in two different cultural groups: children from mainstream, white, Anglo, middle-class families and… read more