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Publication details [#43417]

Ochs, Elinor, Laura Sterponi and Olga Solomon. 2005. Limitations and transformations of habitus in Child-Directed Communication. Discourse Studies 7 (4/5) : 547–583.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

autistic language | language and culture | language deficiency | language development1 | mother-child conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Contradicting a solely nurturing influence of culture on children's language development, this paper uses a Child-Directed Communication model to indicate ways in which the habitus of a community may hinder the communicative abilities of children suffering from neuro-developmental conditions such as severe autism.