Culture-Specific Language Styles
The Development of Oral Narrative and Literacy
Masahiko Minami
- Format:
- Hardback - 328 pages
- ISBN:
- 9781853595745
- Published:
- 11 Apr 2002
- Publisher:
- Multilingual Matters
- Dimensions:
- 210 x 148 (A5)
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Summary
Communication skills are considered extremely important for the development, preservation, and transmission of culture to future generations, and incorporate the complicated relationship between language and culture. This book focuses on an analysis of personal narratives by Japanese pre-school children. The book also analyzes mother-child narratives and joint book-reading activities.
Author Biography:
Dr. Masahiko Minami has written extensively on psycho/sociolinguistics with a particular emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons of language development and narrative/discourse structure. He has published significant contributions to works covering cultural constructions of meaning, childcare quality in Japan, and East Asian students' experiences in U.S. classrooms.
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