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H714: Childhood Socialization

H714: Childhood Socialization. October 10, 2006 Kendra Winner. October 10, 2006 Agenda. Speech Events Continued … reading discussion Childhood Language Socialization Video Analysis Primary and secondary socialization Facilitated Discussions. Small Group Activity Continued:.

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H714: Childhood Socialization

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  1. H714: Childhood Socialization October 10, 2006 Kendra Winner

  2. October 10, 2006 Agenda • Speech Events Continued … reading discussion • Childhood Language Socialization • Video Analysis • Primary and secondary socialization • Facilitated Discussions

  3. Small Group Activity Continued: • How thoroughly/accurately are “emic” meanings of participants considered in interpretation of the data (consider methodology such as cultural insiders, triangulation of data)? • How do particular components of the communicative events interact to impact meaning and structure? • Senders, speakers, addressors • Receivers, hearers, addressees • Purposes and functions • Channels • Linguistic Codes • Settings (immediate, social, community, cultural) • Forms/Genres • Topics • Speech events proper

  4. Discourse Completion Test … revisited • Cop Scenario • Move the damn car. (upgrader) • Move the car, lady. (softener) • Do you know you’re parked in a loading zone?

  5. Speech Events • Communicative, rule governed sequences. • Knock knock jokes “Knock Knock” “Who’s There?” “Abby” “Abby who?” “Abby Birthday to you.”

  6. Speech Events • Knock knock jokes “Knock Knock” “Who’s There?” “Marsh” “Marsh who?” “Marshmellow.”

  7. Speech Events • Communicative, rule governed sequences. • Playing the dozens • Rules • Meaning

  8. Emic … meaning for participants • Deborah Schiffrin (1984) • Jewish Argument as Sociability • Working-class, Jewish community in Philadelphia

  9. Debby: Is there a coffee clique around here? • Jack: No • Freda: There may be, but I don’t know it. • Jack: I don’t think there is • Freda: I think there is, but don’t know of it. • Jack: No? All right.

  10. Debby: Okay. Have you traveled very much outside of Philadelphia? • Jan: No. I think as far as we got was Canada. Ou were overseas in the war, but I didn’t go any further. • Ira: uh … Yeh, we went t’New York, we went to Atlantic City, we went t’Pittsburgh. • Jan: Well that’s this country, she said out of Philadelphia. • Ira: um … we just went to’Kuch’s what the hell do you mean we don’t travel?

  11. Big Ideas …. So far • Week 1: Language and Culture – Perspectives and Methodologies • Week 2: Communicative Interaction: Dialects and Speech Acts • Week 3: Conversational Interactions and Speech Events

  12. Clifford Geertz • To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes. If interpretive anthropology has any general office in the world it is to keep reteaching this fugitive truth.

  13. Childhood Socialization • Through their participation in social interactions, children come to internalize and gain performance competence in socioculturally defined contexts (Ochs, 1990; Vygotsky, 1978)

  14. Language Socialization • Socialization through language • The acquisition of social understandings and systems of belief through exposure to and participation in language-mediated interactions (Ochs, 1990). • Socialization to use language • The ability to speak in ways that are appropriate to the context

  15. Video Observations • What adult goals can you infer? • How much are very young children treated as “real” conversational partners? • How do adults structure their talk to support joint interaction? To support teaching?

  16. Cultural Variation • Contexts of occurrence • US white middle class • Kaluli • Frequency of occurrence • Significance/meaning (structure/function) • Variation among members of a society • Explicit/Implicit

  17. Socialization Contexts • Primary Socialization • Family/Home • Community (peer groups, religious organizations) • Secondary Socialization • School • Peer groups • Work • Institutions/organizations

  18. Peggy Miller South Baltimore Dyadic A >B B>A Direct instruction Elinor Ochs & Bambi Schieffelin Samoa Polyadic A>B B>C C>A Observation Early Language Socialization

  19. Later language socialization • Context shifts • From heavily familial to heavily extra-familial • Peer contexts • Distinctive speech events and routines that don’t have a parallel in adult society or adult expectations • Yup’ik Story • Israeli Ritualized Sharing • School contexts

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