Publication details

Authors/Editors:	Ochs, Elinor
Title:	Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village.
Year:	1988
Publisher:	Cambridge: Cambridge UP
Pages:	xvii + 255
Publication type:	Book — monograph
Language:	English
Volumes:	1
Keyword(s):	language acquisition ; language and culture ; language use ; meaning
Subject — language(s):	Samoan
Annotation:	This book illustrates that Samoan language is grounded in local meaning systems and that a child's development as a social person is realized via language acquisition within a culturally organized and socially accomplished meaning system.

Reviews

Blount, Ben G. (1990) “Review of E.Ochs (1988: `Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village').” Language in Society 19:4. pp. 554-557. Boggs, Stephen (1990) “<Review of E. Ochs (1988: 'Culture and language development: Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village.').>” Journal of Child Language 17:2. pp. 502-506. Romaine, Suzanne (1990) “<Review of E. Ochs (1988: 'Culture and language development. Language acquisition and language socialization in a Samoan village.').>” Linguistics 28:3. pp. 541-545.