“Stop Talking Like That”: A Toddler’s Construction of Identity at a Family Dinner

Parent-child discourse in family settings provides insights into children’s language socialization. In her seminal work on language socialization, Ochs (1993) argues that social identities are essentially constructed by verbal performance and the display of social acts and stances. This paper presen...

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Main Author: Carol Hoi Yee Lo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2015-04-01
Series:Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
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Online Access:https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8HX1QGB/download