Ways with Words Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms

Name: Ways with Words Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms
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ISBN: 9780521273190

ISBN-10: 0521273196

ISBN-13: 9780521273190

Edition: 1996

Authors: Shirley Brice Heath

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Ways with Words 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 a black working-class community whose older generations grew up farming the land but whose current 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…

Book details

List price: $84.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/7/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 450
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.06" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Photographs, maps, figures, tables, texts


Acknowledgments


Prologue


Note on transcriptions



Ethnographer Learning



The piedmont: textile mills and times of change



'Gettin' on' in two communities



Learning how to talk in Trackton



Teaching how to talk in Roadville



Oral traditions



Literate traditions



The townspeople



Ethnographer Doing



Teachers as learners



Learners as ethnographers


Epilogue


Epilogue - 1996


Notes


Bibliography


Index