Language Socialization and Verbal Improvisation

The Handbook of Language Socialization

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 443-463

  Duranti, Alessandro ^a   Black, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bourdieu's notion of habitus repetition, becoming routinization, with creativity possible; Improvisation evaluation, being explicit object of verbal comments, or gestures, nodding; Improvisation, as flexibility in task execution search for patterns, in children's actions; Improvisation, as patterned behavior meaningful actions, what Pressing (1984) calls 'the referent'; Improvisation, in music and theater in certain genres of oral poetry; Language acquisition studies, children exposure, in verbal repetition; Language socialization and verbal improvisation; Language socialization studies, and children's role ways, children conform to social norms; Verbal improvisation, a human universal contextual variation and conventionalization; Verbal improvisation as performed creative behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860993208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444342901.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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