Author: Elinor Ochs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: language, studies, social, foundations, village, cultural, samoan, development, acquisition, socialization, culture
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1988-08-26
List price: $36.99
ISBN-10: 0521348943
ISBN-13: 9780521348942

As children are learning to become competent members of their society, so also are they learning to become competent speakers of their language. In other words socialisation and language acquisition take place at the same time in a child’s experience. In this book, Elinor Ochs explores the complex interaction of these two processes. Focusing in particular on the experiences of children in Samoa, Ochs examines both the cognitive and socio-cultural dimensions of children’s language development. She shows that language competence includes not only knowledge of grammatical principles a

Authors:Elinor Ochs, Lisa Capps,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: everyday, storytelling, lives, creating, narrative, living
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-09-30
List price: $36.50
ISBN-10: 0674010108
ISBN-13: 9780674010109

This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Letting us listen in on dinner-table conversation, prayer, and gossip, Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative--as a genre that is not necessarily homogeneous and as an activity that is not always consistent but consistently serves our need to create selves and communities. Focusing on the ways in which narrative is

Authors:Lisa Capps, Elinor Ochs,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: agoraphobia, discourse, panic, constructing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-09-30
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0674165497
ISBN-13: 9780674165496

Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its sufferers in the fear of leaving safe havens such as home. Paradoxically, while at this safe haven, agoraphobics spend much of their time ruminating over past panic experiences and imagining similar hypothetical situations. In doing so, they create a narrative that both describes their experience and locks them into it. Constructing Panic offers an unprecedented analysis of one patient’s experience of agoraphobia. In this novel interdisciplinary

Authors:Bambi B. Schieffelin, Elinor Ochs,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: language, cultural, foundations, social, cultures, socialization, across, studies
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1987-02-27
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521339197
ISBN-13: 9780521339193

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. The volume focuses on the ways in which children are both socialized through language and socialized to use language in culturally specific ways. The contributors examine the verbal interactions of small children with their caregivers and peers in several different societies around the world,

Authors:Lisa Capps, Elinor Ochs,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: agoraphobia, discourse, panic, constructing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1996-03
List price: $42.50
ISBN-10: 0674165489
ISBN-13: 9780674165489

Meg Logan has not been farther than two miles from home in six years. She has agoraphobia, a debilitating anxiety disorder that entraps its sufferers in the fear of leaving safe havens such as home. Paradoxically, while at this safe haven, agoraphobics spend much of their time ruminating over past panic experiences and imagining similar hypothetical situations. In doing so, they create a narrative that both describes their experience and locks them into it. Constructing Panic offers an unprecedented analysis of one patient’s experience of agoraphobia. In this novel interdisciplinary

Authors:Elinor Ochs, Emanuel A. Schegloff, Sandra A. Thompso
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: sociolinguistics, interactional, studies, grammar, interaction
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 1997-01-28
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 052155828X
ISBN-13: 9780521558280

Many scholars of language have accepted a view of grammar as a clearly delineated and internally coherent structure that is best understood as a self-contained system. The contributors to this volume propose a very different way of approaching and understanding grammar: taking as their starting point the position that the very integrity of grammar is bound up with its place in the larger schemes of the organization of human conduct, particularly social interaction, their essays explore a rich variety of linkages between interaction and grammar.

Author: Joyce Ochs
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Keywords: dulcimer, lessons, first, mel
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2002-01-23
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0786650915
ISBN-13: 9780786650910

This instruction book for beginning lap dulcimer in DAD tuning is unique in two ways. First, it instructs the beginning student in the increasingly popular DAD tuning. Secondly, the author, a classroom music teacher, has carefully and systematically layered the lessons to guide the student through familiar songs while teaching skills and musical concepts. This not only enables the student to enjoy the lap dulcimer but also enhances total music understanding and participation. The accompanying CD provides instructional dialogue and demonstrations of the techniques and songs included in the book