Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children becomespeakers and members of communities, The Handbook of LanguageSocialization is a unique reference work for an emerging andfast-moving field.
* Spans the fields of anthropology, education, appliedlinguistics, and human development
* Includes the latest developments in second and heritagelanguage socialization, and literary and media socialization
* Discusses socialization across the entire life span and acrossinstitutional settings, including families, schools, work places,and churches
* Explores data from a multitude of cultures from around theworld
Alessandro Duranti
Anthropologie Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology Linguistics Linguistik Linguistische Anthropologie Sociolinguistics Soziolinguistik Sprachwissenschaften
"Imaginative, comprehensive, textured, and alwaysthought-provoking, this volume refigures language socialization- across a range of ages and situations - at the heart of thesocial lives of language. An elegant and indispensablecontribution."
-Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Language socialization research brings an extraordinarilysensitive and coherent analytical framework to bear on issues ofmajor consequence for the human sciences. Its program ofcross-cultural comparison is now fully extended to contexts ofrapid and often disjunctive social change, and this volume providesan indispensable overview."
-Ben Rampton, King's College London, Centre for LanguageDiscourse & Communication
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