ANTHRO 2D Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Baby Talk, Social Stratification, Orality

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Anthro 2d - lecture 8 - language socialization & bedtime stories. Primary caregiver - the mother is helped out by other caregivers. Social hierarchy affects the ranking of caregivers. Who talks - child is surrounded by multiparty conversation. Holding position - the child is often held by older siblings; usually on the hip. Participation - the child is not treated as a conversational partner. Perspective - adults don"t take the child"s perspecti(cid:448)e. Language starts (cid:449)ith the (cid:449)ord for (cid:862)shit(cid:863) Figuring out how to become a moral person by learning how to use language appropriately. Ways of extracting meaning from the world around you. Orality - (that is, speaking) is not opposed to reading and writing, they"re all part of the same process. Literacy events - reading as a specific activity. E. g. street signs, bills, menus, food labels, apps, instruction manuals. Initiation: what is this? / response: it"s a typewriter. / evaluation: very good.

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