Table of Contents

Introduction Elinor Ochs; Part I. Acquiring Language and Culture through Interactional Routines: 2. Calling-out and repeating routines in Kwara'ae children's language socialization Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo and David W. Gegeo; 3. Prompting routines in the language socialization of Basotho children Katherine Demuth; 4. Interactional routines as cultural influences upon language acquisition Ann M. Peters and Stephen T. Boggs; 5. What no bedtime story means: narrative skills at home and school Shirley Brice Heath; Part II. Acquiring Knowledge of Status and Role through Language Use: 6. Social norms and lexical acquisition: a study of deictic verbs in Samoan child language Martha Platt; 7. The acquisition of register variation by Anglo-American children Elaine S. Anderson; Part III. Expressing Affect: Input and Acquisition: 8. Teasing and shaming in Kaluli children's interactions Bambi B. Schieffelin; 9. Teasing: verbal play in two Mexicano homes Ann R. Eisenberg; 10. Teasing as language socialization and verbal play in a white working-class community Peggy Miller; 11. The acquisition of communicative style in Japanese Patricia M. Clancy; 12. From feeling to grammar: a Samoan case study Elinor Ochs.

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