Warrants in Children?s Argumentative Discourse: Socio-Economic Differences.

MIGDALEK M. J.; ROSEMBERG C. R.; SHIRO, M.; ALAM F.

Sheffield

Simposio; Child Language Symposium; 2019

University of Shefield

The focus of this paper is to identify young children?s argumentative skills,specifically, the warrants which link a claim with data that justify theconclusion (Toulmin, 1958).- We define warrants as the implicit common ground knowledge whichvalidates the argumentative sequence, as it relates the claim to itsjustification (Toulmin, 1958; Toulmin, Rieke & Janik, 1978).- Studies on children´s confrontational interactions have shown that theysupport their arguments by resorting to social norms, norms of property,rules of transferred ownership, rules, rules of third-party verification,among others (Dunn & Munn, 1987; Cobb-Moore, Danby & Farrell, 2008,2009; Köymen et al., 2014).