Publications

Publication details [#28728]

Kulick, Don. 1992. Language shift and cultural reproduction: Socialization, self, and syncretism in a Papua New Guinean village. (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Languages 14). Cambridge University Press. xvi + 317 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | ideology | language shift | self-presentation | socialization

Language as a subject

Taiap | Tok Pisin

Annotation

This book deals with language shift and child language socialization in Gapun, a remote village of the lower Sepik region of Papua New Guinea.

Reviewed by

Garrett, Paul B. 1994. Review of $Language shift and cultural reproduction: Socialization, self, and syncretism in a Papua New Guinean village.