Publications

Publication details [#12473]

Ochs, Elinor. 1997. Cultural Dimensions of Language Acquisition. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 430–437.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational competence | ethnography of speaking | interactional sociolinguistics | L1-acquisition | socialization

Reprint of

Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. 1983. Acquiring conversational competence. Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Annotation

An examination of the organization and principles of children's acquisition of communicative competence in Samao, as compared to middle-class Western Society.