Dynamique des interactions langagières dans le réseau familial et amical d’un enfant de dix ans

National audienceThe intensive survey presented is a case study of a ten-year old boy. His network of acquaintances and his practices of sociability were described. Then the child was recorded in dyadic interaction with targeted partners. The aim was to observe the management of style in the speech of the child through several sociolinguistic variables according to the general context (family versus friends) and according to microcontexts in relation with the change of interlocutor (individual or group of indiviudals: parents/siblingfs, friends known for a long time/for a short time, native or non native's friend). It examines and seeks to explain the ways speakers talk differently depending on the characteristics of their interlocutors and accomodate each other pragmatically and quantitatively