
The Handbook of Language Socialization
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 19. August 2011
Book
Hardback
680 pages
978-1-4051-9186-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children become speakers and members of communities, The Handbook of Language Socialization is a unique reference work for an emerging and fast-moving field.
* Spans the fields of anthropology, education, applied linguistics, and human development
* Includes the latest developments in second and heritage language socialization, and literary and media socialization
* Discusses socialization across the entire life span and across institutional settings, including families, schools, work places, and churches
* Explores data from a multitude of cultures from around the world
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1338 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-9186-9 (9781405191869)
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Persons
Alessandro Duranti is Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past President of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. For Wiley-Blackwell he has edited Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (2nd Edition, 2009), A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (2006) and Key Terms in Language and Culture (2001).
Elinor Ochs is UCLA Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Applied Linguistics, Director of the UCLA Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent books include Constructing Panic (co-author Capps, L; 1995); Living Narrative (co-author Capps, L. 2001), and Linguaggio e Cultura: Lo Sviluppo delle Competenze Communicative (2006).
Bambi B. Schieffelin is Collegiate Professor and Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She has carried out fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and the U.S. Selected publications include The Give and Take of Everyday Life (1990), Language Ideologies (co-edited with K. A.Woolard and P. V. Kroskrity 1998); and Consequences of Contact (co-edited with M. Makihara, 2007)
Editor
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
New York University
Content
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. The Theory of Language Socialization
Part I: Interactional Foundations
Part II: Socialization Strategies
Part III: Social Orientations
Part IV: Aesthetics and Imagination
Part V: Language and Culture Contact
Index