Culture-Specific Language Styles
The Development of Oral Narrative and Literacy
1st Edition
Published on 11. April 2002
328 pages
978-1-85359-575-2 (ISBN)
Description
Communication skills are considered extremely important for the development, preservation, and transmission of culture to future generations, and incorporate the complicated relationship between language and culture. This book focuses on an analysis of personal narratives by Japanese pre-school children. The book also analyzes mother-child narratives and joint book-reading activities.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-85359-575-2 (9781853595752)
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Person
Dr. Masahiko Minami has written extensively on psycho/sociolinguistics with a particular emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons of language development and narrative/discourse structure. He has published significant contributions to works covering cultural constructions of meaning, childcare quality in Japan, and East Asian students' experiences in U.S. classrooms.
Content
Preface
Part 1: Theoretical and Ethnographic Background
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
3. Research Design: Methodology and Basic Concepts
Part 2: Analyses of the Personal Narratives Conducted Between Japanese Preschool Children and Adults
4. Monologic Narrative: Narrative Development
5. Monologic Narrative Structure in Japanese
Part 3: Mother-Child Narrative Interactions
6. Parental Narrative Elicitation Styles
7. Cross-Cultural Comparison of Parental Narrative Elicitation
Part 4: Development of Literacy in Japanese Children
8. Styles of Parent-Child Book-Reading in Japanese Families
Part 5: Conclusions Derived from the Current Study and a Discussion of Topics for Future Studies in Narrative Discourse
9. Conclusion and Implications
References
Index
Part 1: Theoretical and Ethnographic Background
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
3. Research Design: Methodology and Basic Concepts
Part 2: Analyses of the Personal Narratives Conducted Between Japanese Preschool Children and Adults
4. Monologic Narrative: Narrative Development
5. Monologic Narrative Structure in Japanese
Part 3: Mother-Child Narrative Interactions
6. Parental Narrative Elicitation Styles
7. Cross-Cultural Comparison of Parental Narrative Elicitation
Part 4: Development of Literacy in Japanese Children
8. Styles of Parent-Child Book-Reading in Japanese Families
Part 5: Conclusions Derived from the Current Study and a Discussion of Topics for Future Studies in Narrative Discourse
9. Conclusion and Implications
References
Index
