Persuasive Discourse Strategies Used by Mothers at Dinner Time to Persuade Children to Eat

Leslei Kahari

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Persuasive Discourse Strategies Used by Mothers at Dinner Time to Persuade Children to Eat

Leslei Kahari

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 1, Issue 4)

Received: 29 November 2013 Published: 10 January 2014

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Abstract

This study examines the persuasive strategies used by Mothers in persuading children to eat during dinner time in Zimbabwe. Family interaction during dinner time both reflects and recreates the interaction of the larger society and as such, examining family persuasive discourse can yield informative results of the language practices people use to accomplish persuasive acts in other contexts. To collect data for the study the researcher observed ten Mothers of Grade One students at Avondale Primary School persuading their children to eat during dinner time and interviewed the Mothers after the observations. The results showed that the Mothers use different persuasive strategies to make their children eat dinner hence the need for them to strategically shape their communicative actions to achieve their overall discourse of persuading children to eat.

Published in	International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 1, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijll.20130104.24
Page(s)	191-198
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Strategies, Dinner Time

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Leslei Kahari

Department of Linguistics, University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe

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Leslei Kahari. Persuasive Discourse Strategies Used by Mothers at Dinner Time to Persuade Children to Eat. Int J Lang Linguist. 2014;1(4):191-198. doi: 10.11648/j.ijll.20130104.24

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