Linguistic Anthropology of Education

by Stanton E.F. Wortham and Betsy Rymes

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897898230
• ISBN13: 9780897898232
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"