Culture and Language Development: Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village

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Summary

In this book, Elinor Ochs explores the complex interaction of socialisation and language acquisition in children.

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List of photographs
Foreword by
Acknowledgements
To know a language
Methodology
Introduction to Samoan language usage: grammar and register
The social contexts of childhood: village and household organisation
Ergative case marking: variation and acquisition
Word-order strategies: the two-constituent bias
Clarification
Affect, social control and the Samoan child
The linguistic expression of affect
Literacy instruction in a Samoan village
Language as a symbol and tool
Transcription conventions
Canonical transitive verb types in children's speech
References
Index
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