Dominance in the communication of children in the Czech - German borderland

Abstract

In this article, speaker's positions in three groups of ten years old children were investigated; the dominant or the submissive one. Children's authentic communication was recorded and each turn analysed (initiative- vs. response - turn, won- vs. lost - turn).

The dominant person of each group was identified.

Keywords

• interactional sociolinguistics
• dialogue dynamics
• interactional dominance
• power wielding
• initiative vs. response analysis