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Language Socialization Across Cultures.

Paula Menyuk
- 01 Jan 1989 - 
- Vol. 34, Iss: 8
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This article is published in Psyccritiques.The article was published on 1989-01-01. It has received 271 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Socialization (Marxism).

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From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development

TL;DR: From Neurons to Neighborhoods as discussed by the authors presents the evidence about "brain wiring" and how children learn to learn to speak, think, and regulate their behavior, and examines the effect of the climate-family, child care, community-within which the child grows.
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Linguistic politeness:: Current research issues☆

TL;DR: This article reviewed a substantial part of the research on linguistic politeness, with the objective to evaluate current politeness theories and to outline directions for future politeness studies, including the distinction of politeness as strategic conflict avoidance and social indexing.
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Developmental Issues in Interlanguage Pragmatics

TL;DR: The authors reviewed existing studies with a focus on learning, examining research findings in interlanguage pragmatics that shed light on some basic questions in SLA, and exploring cognitive and social-psychological theories that might offer explanations of different aspects of pragmatic development.
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Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives: Two Parallel SLA Worlds?.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the traditional positivist paradigm is no longer the only prominent paradigm in the field: Relativism has become an alternative paradigm, which is healthy and stimulating for a field like SLA.
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Common Themes and Cultural Variations in Japanese and American Mothers' Speech to Infants

TL;DR: Japanese and American mothers' speech to infants at 6, 12, and 19 months was compared in a cross-sectional study of 60 dyads observed playing with toys at home, finding cultural differences in interactional style and beliefs about child rearing strongly influence the structure and content ofspeech to infants.
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How can insights from conversation analysis be directly applied to teaching L2 pragmatics

TL;DR: The authors revisited the question of why pragmatics should be taught in the foreign language classroom and demonstrates how this can be achieved effectively with materials informed by conversation analysis (CA) since findings in CA describe systematic action sequences underlying verbal activities that display cross-cultural variation.
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Child Agency and Language Policy in Transnational Families

TL;DR: This article examined how child agency and language use patterns influence parent language behaviors, including metalinguistic comments, children's use of resistance strategies, parental responses to children's growing linguistic competence, and enactments of family- external ideologies of race and language.
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Multilingual play: Children's code-switching, role play, and agency in Dominica, West Indies

TL;DR: In Dominica, rural adults forbid children from speaking Patwa (a French-lexicon creole) in favor of acquiring English (the official language), contributing to a rapid language shift in most villages as discussed by the authors.
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Language Ideologies Mediating Literacy and Identity in Bilingual Contexts

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative case study of a seven-year-old Mexican American student and his family was conducted using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine both the child's emergent ideas about language, as expressed in bilingual literature discussions, and his parents' ideological discourses about the use of a minority language in public schools.
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And the Injun goes “How!”: Representations of American Indian English in white public space

TL;DR: The authors describes linguistic features used to depict fictional American Indian speech, a style referred to as Hollywood Injun English, found in movies, on television, and in some literature (the focus is on the film and television varieties).