Ways With Words

Author : Shirley Brice Heath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107263557
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ways with Words written by Shirley Brice Heath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-07-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ways with Words, first published in 1983, is a classic study of children learning to use language at home and at school in two communities only a few miles apart in the south-eastern United States. 'Roadville' is a white working-class community of families steeped for generations in the life of textile mills; 'Trackton' is an African-American working-class community whose older generations grew up farming the land, but whose existent members work in the mills. In tracing the children's language development the author shows the deep cultural differences between the two communities, whose ways with words differ as strikingly from each other as either does from the pattern of the townspeople, the 'mainstream' blacks and whites who hold power in the schools and workplaces of the region. Employing the combined skills of ethnographer, social historian, and teacher, the author raises fundamental questions about the nature of language development, the effects of literacy on oral language habits, and the sources of communication problems in schools and workplaces.

Author : Shirley Brice Heath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521273190
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ways with Words written by Shirley Brice Heath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-07-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1983, traces language patterns and cultural differences between 'Roadville' and 'Tracton'.

Author : Pauline Yu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520224667
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ways with Words written by Pauline Yu and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-09-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interdisciplinary collection of articles analyzing seven classic premodern Chinese texts that are provided in translation.

Author : Kathleen W. Ferrara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195359402
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Therapeutic Ways with Words written by Kathleen W. Ferrara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapeutic Ways with Words provides a unique glimpse into language use in psychotherapy, an important speech event which has previously been shrouded in mystery. This important book shows how both clients and therapists accomplish their aims through language, which, paradoxically, is both the method of diagnosis and the medium of treatment in this cultural practice. With a discourse analysis of tape recordings and transcripts of actual psychotherapy sessions enhanced by a variety of ethnographic observations, Kathleen Warden Ferrara explores the skillful and creative uses of language in the complicated speech event of psychotherapy. Shedding light on discourse practices such as retellings of personal experience narrative, jointly constructed sentences and metaphorical extensions, and strategic uses of repetition, the study emphasizes the interactive nature of all discourse and shows how language is mutually constructed as people interweave pieces of their own and others' sentences, metaphors, and narratives.

Author : Shirley Brice Heath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521841976
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words at Work and Play written by Shirley Brice Heath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thirty year study tracking the changes in family life and language development in 300 working-class families from 1981 onwards.

Author : John Langshaw Austin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019824553X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Do Things with Words written by John Langshaw Austin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of 'illocutionary forces' of utterances which has important bearings on a wide variety of philosophicalproblems.

Author : Michael Genhart
Publisher : American Psychological Association
ISBN 13 : 1433819635
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ouch Moments written by Michael Genhart and published by American Psychological Association. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes kids use hurtful or ugly words to put down other kids, whether they mean to insult or are just going along with the group. These hurtful words often carry a deeper meaning that many children aren’t aware of. Ouch Moments shows kids who is affected by these words: the target, the mean kid, and bystanders. Includes a “Note to Parents and Caregivers.”

Author : Ruth Belov Gross
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 9780590438971
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Don't Need Words! written by Ruth Belov Gross and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1991 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes sign language and other ways that people communicate without words.

Author : David Bartholomae
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312403812
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ways of Reading Words and Images written by David Bartholomae and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapting the methods of the much admired and extremely successful composition anthology Ways of Reading, this brief reader offers eight substantial essays about visual culture (illustrated with evocative photographs) along with demanding and innovative apparatus that engages students in conversations about the power of images.

Author : Paul Grice
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674254201
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Way of Words written by Paul Grice and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991-04-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, Paul Grice’s first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account of speaker-meaning is the standard that others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations. His discussion of conversational implicatures has given philosophers an important tool for the investigation of all sorts of problems; it has also laid the foundation for a great deal of work by other philosophers and linguists about presupposition. His metaphysical defense of absolute values is starting to be considered the beginning of a new phase in philosophy. This is a vital book for all who are interested in Anglo-American philosophy.