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This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk in a variety of cultures to the development of children's communicative capacities. The book focuses on the complexity of the cultural and interactional contexts in which pragmatic learning occurs and re-examines certain assumptions implicit in research on language socialization to date, such as primacy of dyadic interactions in the early ages and the presupposition of a monolingual social matrix.

The focus of this volume is on how language is used between adults and children. The results is a volume that will appeal to readers in language development and narrative discourse. Has the potential to become a classic graduate-level text/reference.

Drawing on the recorded dinner conversation of, and extensive interviews with, native Israeli, American Israeli and Jewish American middle-class families this text explores the cultural styles of sociability and socialization in family discourse. The thesis developed is that family dinners in Western middle-class homes fulfil important functions of sociability for all participants and, at the same time, serve as crucial sites of socialization for children through language and for language use.

As a field of inquiry, interlanguage pragmatics reflects the growing interest in recent years in understanding the social and pragmatic aspects of second language acquisition. Interlanguage Pragmatics offers an up-to-date synthesis of current research in the field, documenting from diverse perspectives the development, comprehension, and production of pragmatic knowledge in a second language. The book consists of three sections. The first concerns cognitive approaches to interlanguage pragmatic development; the second, interlanguage speech act realization of a variety of speech acts;...

Drawing on the recorded dinner conversation of, and extensive interviews with, native Israeli, American Israeli and Jewish American middle-class families this text explores the cultural styles of sociability and socialization in family discourse. The thesis developed is that family dinners in Western middle-class homes fulfil important functions of sociability for all participants and, at the same time, serve as crucial sites of socialization for children through language and for language use.