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This collection of essays is representative of research interests in the fields of language and social interaction from linguistically oriented approaches to social and ethnographic approaches. Useful for graduate students studying language and social interaction.

This collection of essays is representative of research interests in the fields of language and social interaction from linguistically oriented approaches to social and ethnographic approaches. Useful for graduate students studying language and social interaction.

When we think of folk music, most of us picture Pete Seeger singing "This Land is My Land" or Joan Baez singing "Barbara Allen." But this stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, in a wide-ranging portrait that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every possible kind and in every corner of the globe. Written by award-winning musicologist Mark Slobin, this is the first compact introduction to folk music that offers a truly global perspective. Slobin offers an extraordinarily generous portrait of folk music, one that...

Continuing the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, Volume 4 contains chapters on three additional languages/language groups - Finnish, Greek and Korean. The chapters are selective, critical reviews rather than exhaustive summaries of the course of development of each language. Authors approach the language in question as a case study in a potential crosslinguistic typology of acquisitional problems, considering those data which continue to issues of general theoretical concern in developmental psycholinguistics and linguistic theory.

In this fifth volume, the contributors attempt to expand the contexts in which child language has been examined crosslinguistically. The chapters open themes that have been touched on, anticipated and promised in earlier volumes in the series. The study of child language has been situated in the disciplines of psychology and linguistics, and has been most responsive to dominant issues in those fields such as nativism and learning, comprehension and production, errors, input and universals of morphology and syntax. The context has primarily been that of the individual child, interacting with a...