Ways with Words Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms
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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…
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About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511841057
- Subjects Language and Linguistics,Sociolinguistics and Language in Society
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 29 July 1983
- ISBN: 9780521273190
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.59kg
- Contains: 18 b/w illus. 3 maps 17 tables
- Page extent: 450 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 12 September 2018
- ISBN: 9780511841057
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