Language socialization across cultures
By: edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs.
Contributors: Schieffelin, Bambi B.; Ochs, Elinor.
Series: Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ;; no. 3
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Language acquisition; Socialization
Description: A new, alternative, integrated approach to the developmental study of language and culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Elinor Ochs; title: Calling-out and repeating routines in Kwara'ae children's language socialization / Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo and David W. Gegeo; title: Prompting routines in the language socialization of Basotho children / Katherine Demuth; title: Interactional routines as cultural influences upon language acquisition / Ann M. Peters and Stephen T. Boggs; title: What no bedtime story means / Shirley Brice Heath; title: Social norms and lexical acquisition / Martha Platt; title: The acquisition of register variation by Anglo-American children / Elaine S. Andersen; title: Teasing and shaming in Kauli children's interactions / Bambi B. Schieffelin; title: Teasing / Ann R. Eisenberg; title: Teasing as language socialization and verbal play in a white working-class community / Peggy Miller; title: The acquisition of communicative style in Japanese / Particia M. Clancy; title: From feelings to grammar / Elinor Ochs.