Kids Talk : Strategic Language Use in Later Childhood.

Kids Talk : Strategic Language Use in Later Childhood.

Between early childhood and adulthood, language acquisition is succeeded by a bloom of repertoire for managing interaction, a growing sensitivity to the relation of language and society, an expanding ability to wield power through the strategic use of language, and an increasing sophistication in fr...

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Main Author: Hoyle, Susan M.
Other Authors: Adger, Carolyn Temple
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
Subjects:
Language acquisition.
Children > Language.
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
Children > Language
Language acquisition
Sociolinguistics
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors; Transcription Conventions; Introduction; 1. Games of Stance: Conflict and Footing in Hopscotch; 2. Register and Footing in Role Play; 3. Accommodating Friends: Niceness, Meanness, and Discourse Norms; 4. Developing Adolescent Peer Culture through Collaborative Narration; 5. Multiple Codes, Multiple Identities: Puerto Rican Children in New York City; 6. Bodytalk: Discourses of Sexuality among Adolescent African American Girls; 7. Of Ritual Matters to Master: Structure and Improvisation in Language Development at Primary School.

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