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Talking like children : language and the production of age in the Marshall Islands / Elise Berman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford studies in anthropology of languagePublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2019Description: xiv, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780190876982 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780190876975 (cloth : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Language and the production of age in the Marshall Islands
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 996.8/3 B4502 2018
LOC classification:
  • DU710 .B47 2019
Contents:
"Give me my child" : an ethnographic introduction to the power of age in Marshallese social life -- What is age and where does it come from? : A theoretical analysis of age and language socialization -- On the road : how to get out of giving to adults -- "Give me my food" : how to avoid giving to another child and produce relative age -- Aged agency : what children can do that adults cannot (and vice versa) -- Socializing age differences.
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Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino General Circulation Section 996.8/3 B4502 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 04370

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-197) and index.

"Give me my child" : an ethnographic introduction to the power of age in Marshallese social life -- What is age and where does it come from? : A theoretical analysis of age and language socialization -- On the road : how to get out of giving to adults -- "Give me my food" : how to avoid giving to another child and produce relative age -- Aged agency : what children can do that adults cannot (and vice versa) -- Socializing age differences.

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