Speaking With Style (RLE Linguistics C : Applied Linguistics): The Sociolinguistics Skills of Children
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Overview
In acquiring communicative competence, children must learn to speak not only grammatically but also appropriately. Although rules for appropriate language use may vary from culture to culture, they are usually sensitive across languages to many of the same factors, including the context and the topic of the discourse, and the sex, age, familiarity and relative status of the speaker and the listener. This book examines young children's knowledge of the sociolinguistic rules that govern appropriate language use, exploring (i) the repertoire of registers (ie speech varieties) that young children possess; (ii) the linguistic devices that they use to mark distinct registers; (iii) the way their skill in using these registers develops.
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- ISBN-13: 9780415725101
- ISBN-10: 0415725100
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: November 2013
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.06 pounds
- Page Count: 212
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