De Cat, C orcid.org/0000-0003-0044-0527 (2022) Opportunities and challenges in the analysis of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). First Language, 42 (2). pp. 321-329. ISSN 0142-7237
Abstract
The development of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) has no doubt contributed to prompting a renewed interest in children’s narratives. This carefully controlled test of narrative abilities elicits a rich set of measures spanning multiple linguistic domains and their interaction, including lexis, morphosyntax, discourse-pragmatics, as well as various aspects of narrative structure, communicative competence, and language use (such as code-switching). It is particularly well suited to the study of discourse cohesion, referential adequacy and informativeness, and of course to the study of narrative structure and richness, and the acquisition of a more formal or literary register. In this commentary article, I reflect on the five empirical papers included in the special issue. I focus on methodological challenges for the analysis of narratives and identify outstanding questions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Literacy, bilingualism, discourse-pragmatics, morphosyntax, narratives |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Linguistics & Phonetics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jan 2022 13:35 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:52 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/01427237211064695 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:182092 |