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

Masahiko Minami

Published by Multilingual Matters 2002

Culture-Specific Language Styles

The Development of Oral Narrative and Literacy

Masahiko Minami

In the series Child Language and Child Development

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853595752

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About this book

Communication skills are considered important for the development, preservation and transmission of culture to future generations, and incorporate the complex relationship between language and culture. This book focuses on an analysis of narratives by Japanese children. It also analyzes mother-child narratives and joint book-reading activities.

Author / Editor information

MinamiMasahiko:

Dr. Masahiko Minami has written extensively on psycho/sociolinguistics with a particular emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons of language development and narrative/discourse structure. He has published significant contributions to works covering cultural constructions of meaning, childcare quality in Japan, and East Asian students' experiences in U.S. classrooms.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part 1: Theoretical and Ethnographic Background
Chapter 1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. Literature Review Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 3. Research Design: Methodology and Basic Concepts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Part 2: Analyses of the Personal Narratives Conducted Between Japanese Preschool Children and Adults
Chapter 4. Monologic Narrative: Narrative Development Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Chapter 5. Monologic Narrative Structure in Japanese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Part 3: Mother–Child Narrative Interactions
Chapter 6. Parental Narrative Elicitation Styles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Chapter 7. Cross-cultural Comparison of Parental Narrative Elicitation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Part 4: Development of Literacy in Japanese Children
Chapter 8. Styles of Parent–Child Book-Reading in Japanese Families Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Part 5: Conclusions Derived from the Current Study and a Discussion of Topics for Future Studies in Narrative Discourse
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References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
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Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Pages
- Main content: 328
Keywords: Interactional sociolinguistics; Literacy; Cross-cultural understanding; Narrative development; Communication skills; Mother-child narratives; Narrative discourse skills; Personal narratives; Japanese; Cross-cultural issues

eBook

Published: April 11, 2002
ISBN: 9781853595752