1st Edition
Speaking With Style The Sociolinguistics Skills of Children
By Elaine Andersen
Copyright 2014
216 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
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Routledge
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In acquiring communicative competence, children must learn to speak not only grammatically but also appropriately. Although rules for appropriate language use may vary from culture to culture, they are usually sensitive across languages to many of the same factors, including the context and the topic of the discourse, and the sex, age, familiarity and relative status of the speaker and the... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Study of Register Variation 3. An Overview of Developmental Sociolinguistics 4. Methodological Considerations 5. Discourse Structure and Content 6. Variation in Utterance Form and Function 7. Phonological, Lexical and Morphological Markings of Register 8. Conclusions
Biography
Elaine Andersen
