W PRZEDSZKOLU JESTEM TROCHĘ GRZECZNY, A TROCHĘ NIEGRZECZNY – CZYLI O ETYKIECIE JĘZYKOWEJ DZIECI W WIEKU PRZEDSZKOLNYM1
I am a bit good and a bit bad at pre-school – about pre-school children’s linguistic etiquette

Summary/Abstract: This paper is dedicated to verbal manners of expressing politeness/impoliteness by pre-school children. The research is based on the collected corpus of authentic spontaneous utterances obtained from children. A specifi ccorrelation between speech (verbal) acts and emotional needs as well as relations between the child and the adult community is noticed. The impact of educational efforts (or the lack thereof) on manifesting politeness/impoliteness is also visible. A highly probable hypothesis about clear generational relativisation manifested by differences in children’s speech acts (including with respect to politeness/impoliteness) can be formulated. This is related to the need to collect as extensive corpuses of utterances of children representing different generations as possible and to carry out insightful comparative studies with the application of such corpora.

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