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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 174-186Publisher
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000057073
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children's interview responses; dialogicality; relational alignments; relational rationality
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Children's interview responses are often read monologically, as mirror reflections of their spontaneous thinking. In contrast, analyses of alignments and collaboration imply a dialogical approach. We argue that in a dialogical analysis, children's interview responses should be read in terms of a relational rationality. Against the backdrop of such a rationality, 'immature' responses can be understood in terms of children's desire to please the interviewer, and by their rational desire to align themselves with their co-participants. In contrast to the scientific rationality of Grice's conversational maxims, relational rationality is instead discussed in terms of social relations. Copyright (C) 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel.
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