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Publication details [#25209]

Ochs, Elinor. 1988. Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village. Cambridge University Press. xvii + 255 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
language acquisition | language and culture | language use | meaning
Language as a subject
Samoan

Annotation

This book illustrates that Samoan language is grounded in local meaning systems and that a child's development as a social person is realized via language acquisition within a culturally organized and socially accomplished meaning system.

Reviewed by

Boggs, Stephen. 1990. Review of $Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village.
Romaine, Suzanne. 1990. Review of $Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village.
Blount, Ben G. 1990. Review of E.Ochs (1988: `Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village').