Heath, Shirley Brice.

Ways with words : language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. / Shirley Brice Heath. - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983. - xiii, 421 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 401-414.

Contents: The Piedmont: Textile mills and times of change -- "Getting' on" in two communities -- Learning how to talk in Trackton -- Teaching how to talk in Roadville -- Oral traditions -- Literate traditions -- The townspeople -- Teachers as learners -- Learners as ethnographers -- Epilogue --

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Children--Language.
Language arts.
Interaction analysis in education.
Community and school.

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