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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453578203321

Titolo

Language acquisition and language socialization [[electronic resource] ] : ecological perspectives / / edited by Claire Kramsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2002

ISBN

9786611783914

1-281-78391-9

0-8264-2599-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Collana

Advances in applied linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

KramschClaire J

Disciplina

418

Soggetti

Language acquisition - Social aspects

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Socialization

Social ecology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ""How can we tell the dancer from the dance?""; Part One: Language development as spatial and temporal positioning; Part Two: Language development as a mediated, social semiotic activity; Part Three: Discourse alignments and trajectories in institutional settings; Part Four: Classroom rituals and their ecologies; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'This is an outstanding collection of papers by top scholars in a range of disciplines who shed stimulating, complementary insights into the social, cognitive and semiotic frameworks that shape both the acquisition of language, and the constitution of social actors through that process. The intentionally loose ecological framing of the volume provides an arena within which a range of perspectives, all united by their opposition to a mechanistic view of language acquisition, can enter into dialogue with each other. This is a most stimulating collection, with a range of insightful investigations