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Culture-Specific Language Styles

Culture-Specific Language Styles

Dr. Masahiko Minami

(2002)

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Abstract

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


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.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Contents v
Preface vii
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Literature Review 13
Chapter 3 Research Design: Methodology and Basic Concepts 52
Chapter 4 Monologic Narrative: Narrative Development 76
Chapter 5 Monologic Narrative Structure in Japanese 109
Chapter 6 Parental Narrative Elicitation Styles 154
Chapter 7 Cross-cultural Comparison of Parental Narrative Elicitation 193
Chapter 8 Styles of Parent–Child Book-Reading in Japanese Families 238
Chapter 9 Conclusions and Implications 259
References 290
Index 310