Publications

Publication details [#30679]

McCabe, Allyssa, Karen A. Mainess and Tempii B. Champion. 2002. Telling the Unknown Story Complex and Explicit Narration by African American Preadolescents––Preliminary Examination of Gender and Socioeconomic Issues. Linguistics and Education 13 (2) : 151–173.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | gender | narration | social status

Language as a subject

English, African American

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0898-5898

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article examines oral personal narrations of African American children from respectively a low and a middle socioeconomic status background. Girls and low socioeconomic status children achieved a significantly higher level of proposition than did boys and middle socioeconomic status children.