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.
This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk in a variety of cultures to the de...
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.
Drawing on the recorded dinner conversation of, and extensive interviews with, native Israeli, American Israeli and Jewish American middle-class famil...
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.
Drawing on the recorded dinner conversation of, and extensive interviews with, native Israeli, American Israeli and Jewish American middle-class famil...
Inside and outside the classroom, children of all ages spend time interacting with their peers. Through these early interactions, children make sense of the world and co-construct their childhood culture, while simultaneously engaging in interactional activities which provide the stepping stones for discursive, social and cognitive development. This collection brings together an international team of researchers to document how children's peer talk can contribute to their socialization and demonstrates that if we are to understand how children learn in everyday interactions we must take into...
Inside and outside the classroom, children of all ages spend time interacting with their peers. Through these early interactions, children make sense ...
