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Ways with Words is a classic study of children learning to use language at home and at school in two communities only a few miles apart in the south-eastern United States. 'Roadville' is a white working-class community of families steeped for generations in the life of textile mills; 'Trackton' is a black working-class community whose older generations grew up farming the land but whose current members work in the mills. In tracing the children's language development the author shows the deep cultural differences between the two communities, whose ways with words differ as strikingly from each other as either does from the pattern of the townspeople, the 'mainstream' blacks and whites who hold power in the schools and workplaces of the region. Employing the combined skills of ethnographer, social historian, and teacher, the author raises fundamental questions about the nature of language development, the effects of literacy on oral language habits, and the sources of communication problems in schools and workplaces.

-Community and school --- Interaction analysis in education --- Analysis, Interaction (Education) --- Interaction process analysis in education --- Teacher-pupil interaction --- Observation (Educational method) --- Teacher-student relationships --- Verbal behavior --- School and community --- Parents' and teachers' associations --- Community and school. --- Interaction analysis in education. --- Language arts. --- Children --- Language arts --- Communication arts --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Language --- Study and teaching --- Sociolinguistics --- Sociology of education --- Didactics of languages --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- United States --- Community and school --- Communication --- Social interaction --- Schools --- Language development in children --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Language and languages --- Vocabulary --- Language. --- Children - Language --- United States of America --- ENSEIGNANTS --- ETUDIANTS --- LANGUE

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Language in the USA is a volume of specially commisioned studies on the language situation in America, how it came to be the way it is, and the forces of changes within it. The USA has its own unique pattern of languages: American English, the principal language, different in structure and use from other kinds of English in the world; two hundred American Indian languages, some of them flourishing as never before; Spanish, spoken in North America before English and now the second most important language in the country; a cost of immigrant languages, each with a different history of accommodation to the American scene. The book explains the place of these various languages and how they are used in education, the professions, and general communication. One objective of the editors was to provide background information on such issues as legalese, Black English, bilingual education, Indian alphabets, correct English. Another objective was to stimulate interests in the facts of language use in local communities and in the nation.

Linguistics --- United States --- Languages. --- Languages --- History --- 800 --- 800 Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- #SBIB:309H514 --- Linguistiek --- United States - Languages --- United States of America --- ANGLAIS (LANGUE) --- ETATS-UNIS --- LANGUES --- HISTOIRE