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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date
July 1, 1983
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780521253345
ISBN-10
0521253349
Dimensions
1.25 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.55 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$85.00
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.
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Hardcover
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from Cambridge Univ Pr (July 1, 1983)
9780521253345 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $85.00
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
from Cambridge Univ Pr (July 1, 1983)
9780521273190 | details & prices | 421 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $69.99
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