The Handbook of Language Socialization

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Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2012-04-18
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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

Author Biography

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)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

1. The Theory of Language Socialization: Elinor Ochs & Bambi B. Schieffelin.

Part I: Interactional Foundations.

2. Language Socialization and the Cultural Organization of Attention: Penelope Brown.

3. Pre-verbal Infant-caregiver Interaction: Akira Takada.

4. Language Socialization and Multiparty Participation Frameworks: Lourdes de León.

Part II: Language Socialization Strategies.

5. Rethinking Baby Talk: Olga Solomon.

6. Local Theories of Child Rearing: Amy Paugh.

7. Language Socialization and Shaming: Adrienne Lo and Heidi Fung.

8. Language Socialization and Narrative: Peggy J. Miller, Michele Koven, and Shumin Lin.

9. Language Socialization and Repetition: Leslie Moore.

10. Literacy Socialization: Laura Sterponi.

11. Language Socialization in Children’s Medical Encounters: Tanya Stivers.

Part III: Social Orientations.

12. Language Socialization and Politeness Routines: Matthew Burdelski.

13. Language Socialization and Stance-Taking Practices: Haruko Minegishi Cook.

14. Language Socialization and Morality: Ayala Fader.

15. Language Socialization and Hierarchy: Kathryn M. Howard.

16. Peer Language Socialization: Marjorie H. Goodwin and Amy Kyratzis.

17. Language Socialization and Exclusion: Inmaculada M. García-Sánchez.

Part IV: Aesthetics and Imagination.

18. Language Socialization in Arts and Science: Shirley Brice Heath.

19. Language Socialization and Verbal Improvisation: Alessandro Duranti and Steven P. Black.

20. Language Socialization and Verbal Play: Karin Aronsson.

Part V: Language and Culture Contact.

21. Language Socialization and Language Ideologies: Kathleen C. Riley.

22. Language Socialization and Language Shift: Paul B. Garrett.

23. Language Socialization and Immigration: Patricia Baquedano-López and Ariana Mangual Figueroa.

24. Second Language Socialization: Patricia A. Duff.

25. Heritage Language Socialization: Agnes He.

26. Language Socialization and Language Endangerment: Angela M. Nonaka.

27. Language Socialization and Language Revitalization: Debra A. Friedman.

Index.

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