Language Socialization Across Cultures

Book Overview

Children's acquisition of language and their acquisition of culture are processes that have usually been studied separately. In exploring cross-culturally the connections between the two, this volume provides a new, alternative, integrated approach to the developmental study of language and culture.

The volume focuses on the ways in which children are both socialized through language and socialized to use language in culturally specific ways. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521339197
• ISBN13: 9780521339193
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"