Elaine Andersen

Speaking With Style (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)

ISBN: 978-1-317-93212-3
EAN: 9781317932123
Produktnummer: 16965494
Verlag: Taylor &amp; Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Plattform: PDF

The Sociolinguistics Skills of Children

Ebook (PDF Format)

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. There is available detailed evidence of the ways in which adults consistently modify their speech to foreigners, of phonological, syntactic, and lexical markings of language in professional settings, and of differences in men's and women's speech… Mehr