Parent–child discussions about emotion are a key socialization influence on children’s socio‐emotional development. Extant research on parent–child discussions about emotion largely focuses on three main types of discourse content: parental elaboration, parental use of emotion labels and explanations, and parental emotion coaching. A new direction involves distinguishing between parents’ direct and indirect communication of discourse content. This distinction may be vital when considering the role of children’s communicative competence in their developing socio‐emotional competence. We integrate literature on (in)direct communication, a concept prominent in linguistics, and emotion socialization. We argue that parental indirect communication can teach children communicative competence in the context of emotion talk. We discuss literature from the developmental and linguistic fields on parents’ teaching of communicative skills, as well as potential cognitive, relational, and emotional functions of indirectness, with communication and its socialization embedded within cultural context. Finally, we suggest new research directions examining the role of parental indirect communication in children’s socio‐emotional development. By integrating developmental and linguistic literatures, we provide a novel approach to the study of parental emotion socialization through parent–child discourse.

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力求将亲子情感交流和语言理论的研究整合起来：聚焦于父母（间接）交往

亲子间关于情感的讨论是对孩子的社会情感发展的关键社会化影响。现有的关于亲子情感的讨论研究主要集中在三种主要的话语内容类型上：父母阐述，父母对情感标签和解释的使用以及父母情感指导。一个新的方向涉及区分父母对话语内容的直接和间接交流。当考虑儿童的交际能力在发展中的社会情感能力中的作用时，这种区别可能至关重要。我们整合了有关直接交流，语言学和情感社会化方面的文献。我们认为，父母间的间接沟通可以在情感交流的背景下教给孩子沟通能力。我们讨论了来自发展和语言学领域的文献，涉及父母的沟通技巧教学以及间接性的潜在认知，关系和情感功能，其中沟通及其社会化嵌入了文化背景中。最后，我们提出了新的研究方向，以检验父母之间的间接交流在儿童的社会情感发展中的作用。通过整合发展和语言文献，我们提供了一种通过亲子话语研究父母情感社会化的新颖方法。我们建议提出新的研究方向，以检验父母之间的间接沟通在儿童的社会情感发展中的作用。通过整合发展和语言文献，我们提供了一种通过亲子话语研究父母情感社会化的新颖方法。我们建议提出新的研究方向，以检验父母之间的间接沟通在儿童的社会情感发展中的作用。通过整合发展和语言文献，我们提供了一种通过亲子话语研究父母情感社会化的新颖方法。