Culture-Specific Language Styles: The Development of Oral Narrative and Literacy. Child Language and Child Development.

Autor/in	Minami, Masahiko
Titel	Culture-Specific Language Styles: The Development of Oral Narrative and Literacy. Child Language and Child Development.
Quelle	(2002), (316 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	1-85359-573-X
Schlagwörter	Child Development; Childrens Literature; Cultural Influences; Discourse Analysis; Foreign Countries; Language Acquisition; Language Styles; Literacy; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Personal Narratives; Preschool Children; Preschool Education; Reading Aloud to Others; Socialization; Sociocultural Patterns; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kindesentwicklung; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Diskursanalyse; Ausland; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Sprachstil; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Erlebniserzählung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Soziokulturelle Theorie
Abstract	This book examines how culturally specific aspects of Japanese preschool children's narrative discourse skills develop and eventually lead to literacy. It discusses how language shapes and is shaped by culture-specific experiences, analyzing how young Japanese children develop narrative structure and how Japanese parents guide their children in the acquisition of culture-specific styles of narrative and literacy. The book is based on research involving 20 preschool children ages 4 and 5 years and their mothers. Data consisted of children's and mothers' monologic narratives that were elicited by a neutral researcher; mother-child interactions, with a focus on mothers' utterances when they verbally interacted with their children during narrative elicitation; and mother-child interactions in the context of book reading activities. Part 1 of the book provides a theoretical and ethnographic background to the study. Part 2 analyzes the personal narratives told by Japanese preschool children and adults. Part 3 studies mother-child narrative discourse interactions, not only in Japan, but also in North America, using categories of meaning that emerge from the data. Part 4 examines the relationship between sociocultural background and young Japanese children's literacy development. (Contains approximately 400 references.) (SM)
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