Linguistic Anthropology of Education

ISBN-13: 9780897898232 Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated Publication date: 10/30/2002 Pages: 288 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d) Over the years, linguistic anthropological research has shown how classrooms are socializing institutions and how language functions as one medium through which this socialization is accomplished. Early work in the field has captured the immediacy of social practice and language use in educational contexts, and has created useful characterizations of variations in communicative competence.The present work builds on the strengths of prior work, showing how new theoretical concepts and empirical methods developed in linguistic anthropology over the last decade can further illuminate educational settings. The authors introduce an updated Linguistic Anthropology of Education which recognizes that, in the rapidly changing field of cultural production within which children and teachers operate today, the exploration of multiple, pre-existing forms