Introduction
As linguistic anthropologists have long recognized, cultural values, beliefs, ideologies, expectations, and preferences are indexed in everyday discourse and social interactions. A powerful contribution that the language socialization paradigm makes to an understanding of language development is its close attention to the linguistic forms that are used to socialize children and other novices into expected roles and behaviors in particular cultural contexts. The difference between language socialization and developmental pragmatics as approaches to the acquisition of communicative competence, according to Schieffelin and Ochs ( 1986), is only one of scope and perspective, not the object of research itself. As Ochs ( 1996) explains, language socialization entails “socialization to use language meaningfully, appropriately, and effectively” (p. 408, italics added). In this sense, most language socialization research will implicitly, if not explicitly, deal with the...
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Li, D. (2008). Pragmatic Socialization. In: Hornberger, N.H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30424-3_198
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