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The grammar of autobiography : a developmental account / Jean Quigley.

By: Quigley, Jean.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 232 p.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780585342443; 9781135661946; 9781410605849.Subject(s): English language -- Modality | English language -- Grammar | Children -- Language | Narration (Rhetoric) | AutobiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books DDC classification: 425 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge.
Contents:
The Discursive Self -- Modal Auxiliaries, Subjectivity and the Self -- The English Modal Auxiliaries and their System of Meanings -- The Acquisition and Development of the English Modal Auxiliaries: Psycholinguistic Research -- The Study: a Developmental Linguistic Investigation of Modal Auxiliaries in Children's Autobiographical Accounts -- Modal Grammar in the Construction of the Self -- A Sense of Responsibility: Can -- A Sense of Commitment: Will -- The Grammar of Autobiographical Narrative -- A Sense of Location -- Tense: Acting Out or Acting Into? -- Verbs: Acting Out or Acted On? -- Pronouns: Speaker or Spoken About? -- Construction a Narrative Identity -- Accounting for Oneself: the Discourse of Agency -- Reporting -- Agency -- Emotions -- Theory of Mind Statements -- Evaluating Oneself: the Discourse of Morality -- Interpersonal Narrating Functions -- Prescribing -- Problem-Solving -- Unreal States.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Discursive Self -- Modal Auxiliaries, Subjectivity and the Self -- The English Modal Auxiliaries and their System of Meanings -- The Acquisition and Development of the English Modal Auxiliaries: Psycholinguistic Research -- The Study: a Developmental Linguistic Investigation of Modal Auxiliaries in Children's Autobiographical Accounts -- Modal Grammar in the Construction of the Self -- A Sense of Responsibility: Can -- A Sense of Commitment: Will -- The Grammar of Autobiographical Narrative -- A Sense of Location -- Tense: Acting Out or Acting Into? -- Verbs: Acting Out or Acted On? -- Pronouns: Speaker or Spoken About? -- Construction a Narrative Identity -- Accounting for Oneself: the Discourse of Agency -- Reporting -- Agency -- Emotions -- Theory of Mind Statements -- Evaluating Oneself: the Discourse of Morality -- Interpersonal Narrating Functions -- Prescribing -- Problem-Solving -- Unreal States.

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