Summary Journal Linguistics 3

Arani , Shohreh Shahpouri. 2012. A Study of Directive Speech Acts Used by Iranian Nursery School
Children: The Impact of Context on Children’s Linguistic Choices. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, Vol. 1 No. 5, (p: 163-175).

This purpose of this study  was finding out the forms and functions of directive speech acts uttered by Persian-speaking children. The writer’s goal is to discover the distinct strategies applied by speakers of nursery school age children regarding three parameters: the choice of form, the negotiation of communicative goals within conversation, and the protection of face. The data collected based on actual school conversational situations that were audio recorded in four nursery schools during classroom work and playtime activities. The subject of this study is children, of both sexes, between 4-6 years old and various social classes but their ethnic backgrounds were the same. The data analysis of this study were with imperatives form that studies done by Anderson-Sloberg (1990) have shown that children direct many orders to other children, quite a lot to their mothers, but less to their father and adult interlocutors, interrogative, and declarative form.