Children?s aquisition of language and their acquisition of culture are processes that have usually been studied separately. In exploring cross-culturally the connections between the two, this volume provides a new, alternative, integrated approach to the developmental study of language and culture. [...]

Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children become speakers and members of communities, "The Handbook of Language Socialization" is a unique reference work for an emerging and fast-moving field.Spans the fields of anthropology, education, applied linguistics, and human development I[...]