Marsha D. Walton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marsha D. Walton is involved.
Articles
2013 Reported speech and the development of authorial voice in middle childhood Narrative Inquiry 23:2, pp. 388–404 | Article
The presentation of speech-in-text is an inherently meta-linguistic practice. When children bring speech into their writing, they are necessarily attending to speech as such. Constructing reported speech requires them to use language reflexively and may be a critical component of the development of… read more
2001 The Role of Personal Narrative in Bringing Children into the Moral Discourse of Their Culture Narrative Inquiry 11:2, pp. 307–334 | Article
This study examined personal narratives written by 364 inner-city 4th–6th graders about an experience with interpersonal conflict. Stories were coded for three sets of variables based on Bruner’s 1990 work on narrative thought. The co-occurrences of these variables lent support to the notions that… read more