Research Catalog

Title

Language socialization across cultures / edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs.

Publication

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

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Additional Authors

• Schieffelin, Bambi B.
• Ochs, Elinor.

Description

vii, 274 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; no. 3

Uniform Title

Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; no. 3.

Subject

• Language acquisition
• Socialization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

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 / Particia M. Clancy -- From feelings to grammar / Elinor Ochs.

ISBN

• 0521326214
• 0521339197 (pbk.)

LCCN

86014798

OCLC

• 13823512
• ocm13823512

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries