ABSTRACT
Childly Language explores how attitudes and cultural assumptions about children and childhood are revealed in contemporary English. It addresses such questions as: How is concern for children's safety and welfare reflected in the vocabulary and grammar of contemporary English? and When we say that an adult is being 'childish', what are we saying about the characteristics of children?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Discourses of Childhood
part |2 pages
Part II Perspectives on Children, Language and the Social World
part |2 pages
Part III Children's Talk
part |2 pages
Part IV