Language socialization across cultures /

Children's aquisition of language and their acquisition of culture are processes that have usually been studied separately. In exploring cross-culturally the connections between the two, this volume provides a new, alternative, integrated approach to the developmental study of language and cult...

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Other Authors: Schieffelin, Bambi B. (Editor), Ochs, Elinor (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Series:Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; 3.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Elinor Ochs
  • Calling-out and repeating routines in Kwara'ae children's language socialization / Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo and David W. Gegeo
  • Prompting routines in the language socialization of Basotho children / Katherine Demuth
  • Interactional routines as cultural influences upon language acquisition / Ann M. Peters and Stephen T. Boggs
  • What no bedtime story means / Shirley Brice Heath
  • Social norms and lexical acquisition / Martha Platt
  • The acquisition of register variation by Anglo-American children / Elaine S. Andersen
  • Teasing and shaming in Kauli children's interactions / Bambi B. Schieffelin
  • Teasing / Ann R. Eisenberg
  • Teasing as language socialization and verbal play in a white working-class community / Peggy Miller
  • The acquisition of communicative style in Japanese / Patricia M. Clancy
  • From feelings to grammar / Elinor Ochs.