Title Children's worlds and children's language / edited by Jenny Cook-Gumperz, William A. Corsaro, Jürgen Streeck

Published Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, [1986] ©1986

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Description 1 online resource (x, 487 pages) : illustrations Series New Babylon, studies in the social sciences ; 47 New Babylon, studies in the social sciences ; 47 Contents ""Preface""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Issues in Theory and Method of Studying Childrenâ€?s Worlds""; ""1. Studying Childrenâ€?s Worlds: Methodological Issues""; ""2. Caught in a Web of Words: Some Considerations on Language Socialization and Language Acquisition""; ""The Preschool Years""; ""3. From Early Interaction Patterns to Language Acquisition: Which Continuity?""; ""4. The Construction of Joint Activities with an Age-Mate: The Transition from Caregiver-Child to Peer Play""; ""5. The Social World of Kwaraâ€?ae Children: Acquisition of Language and Values"" ""12. Towards Reciprocity: Politics, Rank and Gender in the Interaction of a Group of Schoolchildren""""13. Activity Structure as Scaffolding for Childrenâ€?s Second Language Learning""; ""14. Adult Elicited Child Behavior: The Paradox of Measuring Social Competence Through Interviewing""; ""15. Learning How to Become an Interlocutor. The Verbal Negotiation of Common Frames of Reference and Actions in Dyads of 7â€?14 Year Old Children""; ""16. The Social Organization of Adolescent Gossip: The Rhetoric of Moral Evaluation"" ""6. The Social Construction of the Sibling Relationship""""7. Rules in Action: Orderly Features of Actions that Formulate Rules""; ""Nursery School and the Early Grades""; ""8. The Young Childâ€?s Image of the Person and the Social World: Some Aspects of the Childâ€?s Representation of Persons""; ""9. Development of Communicative Skills: The Construction of Fictional Reality in Childrenâ€?s Play""; ""10. Routines in Peer Culture""; ""11. A Silent World of Movements. Interactional Processes among Deaf Children""; ""Middle Childhood and Adolescence"" Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Children -- Language. Interpersonal communication in children. Social interaction in children. Socialization. Form Electronic book Author Cook-Gumperz, Jenny. Corsaro, William A. Streeck, Jürgen. ISBN 3110864215 (electronic bk.) 9783110864212 (electronic bk.)

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