Provides a way of accounting for the relationship between language and a variety of social phenom...

A study of the development of literacy in the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae.

Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific re...

In this book, Elinor Ochs explores the complex interaction of socialisation and language acquisit...

The Acquisition of Literacy

Children's acquisition of language and their acquisition of culture are processes that have usual...

These collected essays critically examine the consequences of contact between colonial and missio...

First published in 1983, this book represents a substantial body of detailed research on children...

'Language ideologies' refers to the representation, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersec...

These collected essays critically examine the consequences of contact between colonial and missio...

Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children become speakers and members of commu...

Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children become speakers and members of commu...