The Handbook of Language Socialization

by Duranti, Alessandro; Ochs, Elinor; Schieffelin, Bambi B.

• ISBN13: 9781405191869
• ISBN10: 1405191864
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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 (2^nd 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	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
The Theory of Language Socialization	p. 1
Interactional Foundations	p. 23
The Cultural Organization of Attention	p. 29
Preverbal Infant-Caregiver Interaction	p. 56
Language Socialization and Multiparty Participation Frameworks	p. 81
Socialization Strategies	p. 113
Rethinking Baby Talk	p. 121
Local Theories of Child Rearing	p. 150
Language Socialization and Shaming	p. 169
Language Socialization and Narrative	p. 190
Language Socialization and Repetition	p. 209
Literacy Socialization	p. 227
Language Socialization in Children's Medical Encounters	p. 247
Social Orientations	p. 269
Language Socialization and Politeness Routines	p. 275
Language Socialization and Stance-Taking Practices	p. 296
Language Socialization and Morality	p. 322
Language Socialization and Hierarchy	p. 341
Peer Language Socialization	p. 365
Language Socialization and Exclusion	p. 391
Aesthetics and Imagination	p. 421
Language Socialization in Art and Science	p. 425
Language Socialization and Verbal Improvisation	p. 443
Language Socialization and Verbal Play	p. 464
Language and Culture Contact	p. 485
Language Socialization and Language Ideologies	p. 493
Language Socialization and Language Shift	p. 515
Language Socialization and Immigration	p. 536
Second Language Socialization	p. 564
Heritage Language Socialization	p. 587
Language Socialization and Language Endangerment	p. 610
Language Socialization and Language Revitalization	p. 631
Index	p. 648
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