Alison Sealey

Childly Language

Children, language and the social world

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring how attitudes and cultural assumptions about children and childhood are revealed in contemporary English, this text addresses such questions as: How is concern for children's safety and welfare reflected in the vocabulary and grammar of contemporary English?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781138437647
• ISBN-10: 1138437646
• Artikelnr.: 48950099

Autorenporträt

Alison Sealy is Professor at the University of Lancaster, UK. She is the author of Researching English Language: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Acknowledgements
Publisher's Acknowledgements
PART I: DISCOURSES OF CHILDHOOD
Introduction to Part I
1. Children in the news (1): threatened, protected, active
2. Children in the news (2): the idea of the child
3. Children in the English language
PART II: PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN, LANGUAGE AND THE SOCIAL WORLD
Introduction to Part II
4. Perpectives on researching cihldren and language
5. Perspectives on language, identity and the social world
PART III: CHILDREN'S TALK
Introduction to Part III
6. The social status of 'child' in informal talk
7. Blurred boundaries: speaking to children, speaking as a child
8. Children's negotiations of the social world
PART IV
9. Conclusions and implications
References
Index