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Publication details [#6845]

Mitchell-Kernan, Claudia and Keith T. Kernan. 1975. Children's insults: America and Samoa. In Sanches, Mary and Ben G. Blount, eds. Sociocultural dimensions of language use. Academic Press. pp. 307–315.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

enculturation | insulting, L1-acquisition of | urban community

Language as a subject

English, Black | Samoan

Annotation

Study of insults by children in American Samoa and in an urban black community in the United States, as evidence of the knowledge and acquisition of cultural values.