In this book, Elinor Ochs explores the complex interaction of socialisation and language acquisition in children.
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As children are learning to become competent members of their society, so also are they learning to become competent speakers of their language. In other words socialisation and language acquisition take place at the same time in a child's experience. In this book, Elinor Ochs explores the complex interaction of these two processes.
List of photographs; Foreword by Shirley Brice Heath; Acknowledgements; 1. To know a language; 2. Methodology; 3. Introduction to Samoan language usage: grammar and register; 4. The social contexts of childhood: village and household organisation; 5. Ergative case marking: variation and acquisition; 6. Word-order strategies: the two-constituent bias; 7. Clarification; 8. Affect, social control and the Samoan child; 9. The linguistic expression of affect; 10. Literacy instruction in a Samoan village; 11. Language as a symbol and tool; Appendix I. Transcription conventions; Appendix II. Canonical transitive verb types in children's speech; References; Index.
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