“Imaginative, comprehensive, textured, and always thought-provoking, this volume refigures language socialization – across a range of ages and situations – at the heart of the social lives of language. An elegant and indispensable contribution.”
-Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Language socialization research brings an extraordinarily sensitive and coherent analytical framework to bear on issues of major consequence for the human sciences. Its program of cross-cultural comparison is now fully extended to contexts of rapid and often disjunctive social change, and this volume provides an indispensable overview.”
-Ben Rampton, King’s College London, Centre for Language Discourse & Communication
From the Back Cover
The Handbook of Language Socialization presents a comprehensive survey of the latest research and our current state of knowledge in this flourishing field, which lies at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology. At its heart is the important question of how, in the course of acquiring language, children become speakers and members of communities. The Handbook brings together the history of this recent field and its latest developments and best insights from international fieldwork, including those gleaned from second and heritage language socialization, literacy and media socialization, and socialization beyond childhood and across the lifespan and institutional settings.
The Handbook of Language Socialization is an important resource focusing on the social and cultural implications of children’s communicative development and those aspects of language acquisition that have been left out of previous linguistic and psychological studies.
About the Author
Alessandro Duranti is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past President of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. For Wiley-Blackwell he has edited Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (2nd Edition, 2009), A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology (2006) and Key Terms in Language and Culture (2001).
Elinor Ochs is UCLA Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Applied Linguistics, Director of the UCLA Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Selected books include Fast-Forward Family: Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle Class America(2013),Life at Home in the 21st Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors (2012),Linguaggio e Cultura: Lo Sviluppo delle Competenze Communicative (2006), and Living Narrative (2001).
Bambi B. Schieffelin is Collegiate Professor and Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She has carried out fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and the U.S. Selected publications include The Give and Take of Everyday Life (1990), Language Ideologies (co-edited with K. A.Woolard and P. V. Kroskrity 1998); and Consequences of Contact (co-edited with M. Makihara, 2007)
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