Elinor Ochs

Bambi B. Schieffelin

This volume brings together essays on the structure of language and the use of language during the course of its acquisition. -- pref.

Developmental Pragmatics

E. Valentine Daniel

William H. Durham

Annual Review of Anthropology

In this study of language socialization among the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea, Bambi B. Schieffelin examines the everyday speech activities between children and members of their families, linking them to other social practices and symbolic forms such as exchange systems, gender roles, sibling relationships, rituals and myths. In Kaluli society, as in many others in Papua New Guinea, reciprocity plays a primary role in social life. In families, social relationships are constituted through giving and sharing food. Children, however, are also socialized through language to refuse to share, creating a tension in daily interactions. Issues of authority, autonomy and interdependence are negotiated through these verbal exchanges. Schieffelin demonstrates how language plays a fundamental role in the production, meaning and interpretation of these activities, as it is the medium of social practice. Through the micro-analysis of social interactions, Schieffelin shows how values regarding reciprocity, gender relations and language itself are indexed and socialized in everyday talk to children, and how children's own ways of speaking express fundamental cultural concerns about their social relationships.

Language, Socialization of Kaluli Children

The Give and Take of Everyday Life

1996

Professor of Anthropology Elinor Ochs

A new, alternative, integrated approach to the developmental study of language and culture.

Language Socialization Across Cultures

Alessandro Duranti

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

The Handbook of Language Socialization

J. Joseph Errington

Judith Irvine

A fascinating account of the role of language in radical social transformation in Javanese-Indonesian community.

Shifting Languages

Paul V. Kroskrity

Kathryn Ann Woolard

"Language ideologies" refers to the representation (explicit or implicit) of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. These essays examine definitions and conceptions of language focusing on how such activity organizes individuals, institutions and their interrelationships.

Practice and Theory

Language Ideologies

Examines how children and adults use language to perform a variety of informational, social and poetic functions - to introduce, sustain and elaborate topics, to provide relevant responses and to play.

Bambi B. Schieffelin

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