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Enculturation Processes in Primary Language Acquisition
Anna Dina L. Joaquin
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Description for Enculturation Processes in Primary Language Acquisition
Hardcover. This book explores how language is acquired via enculturation. It combines research and perspectives from anthropology, sociology, applied linguistics, developmental psychology and neurobiology to argue for a theory of language acquisition via enculturation. Num Pages: 228 pages, 12 figures. BIC Classification: CFDC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
This book explores how language is acquired via enculturation. It combines research and perspectives from anthropology, sociology, applied linguistics, developmental psychology and neurobiology to argue for a theory of language acquisition via enculturation. The first part of the book examines the practices by which we are enculturated. Indeed, members of a society are socialized into their culture, and more specifically to use language through language via processes that include eavesdropping, observation, participation, imitation, and language socialization. However, ethnographic accounts also overwhelmingly show that children become enculturated in large part on their own initiative. Thus, the second part of the ... Read more
This book explores how language is acquired via enculturation. It combines research and perspectives from anthropology, sociology, applied linguistics, developmental psychology and neurobiology to argue for a theory of language acquisition via enculturation. The first part of the book examines the practices by which we are enculturated. Indeed, members of a society are socialized into their culture, and more specifically to use language through language via processes that include eavesdropping, observation, participation, imitation, and language socialization. However, ethnographic accounts also overwhelmingly show that children become enculturated in large part on their own initiative. Thus, the second part of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908049995
SKU
V9781908049995
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About Anna Dina L. Joaquin
Anna Dina L. Joaquin is Assistant Professor, Linguistics/TESL Program at California State University, Northridge. She is co-author (with Namhee Lee, Lisa Mikesell, Andrea Mates and John Schumann) of The Interactional Instinct: The Evolution and Acquisition of Language (OUP, 2009).
Reviews for Enculturation Processes in Primary Language Acquisition
'This book has great potential for influence. It is a very clever demonstration of the relatedness between behaviorial views of language and cultural acquisition and neurobiology.' Ryan Nelson, University of Louisiana, Lafayette 'The book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand socio-neurobiology of language acquisition. It achieves this in a manner that will be informative for developmental ... Read more