Curriculum Vitae (Short)

Books (Click to Link):

2007 Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies. (M. Makihara co-editor).

1998 Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. NY: Oxford Univ. Press. (K. Woolard & P. Kroskrity co-editors).

1990 The Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language Socialization of Kaluli Children. NY: Cambridge University Press.

1998 Bosavi-English-Tok-Pisin Dictionary. Canberra, ANU:Pacific Linguistics C-153 (with Steven Feld).

1986 Language Socialization across Cultures. NY: Cambridge University Press. (E. Ochs co-editor).

1986 The Acquisition of Literacy: Ethnographic Perspectives. Norwood, NJ: Ablex (P. Gilmore co-editor).

1983 Acquiring Conversational Competence. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (with E. Ochs).

Bambi B. Schieffelin

Department of Anthropology
New York University
25 Waverly Place
New York, NY 10003

Email: bs4@nyu.edu

Selected Publications in Full-Text

• 1986 Language acquisition and socialization: Three developmental stories and their implications. In Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion. NY: Cambridge University Press (with E. Ochs).
• 1993 Codeswitching and language socialization: Some probable relationships. In Pragmatics: From Theory to Practice. J. Duchan et al. eds. pp. 20-42. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• 1994 The "real" Haitian Creole: Ideology, metalinguistics and orthographic choice. American Ethnologist 21,1:176 - 200. (with R. Doucet).
• 1994 Language ideology. Annual Review of Anthropology. 23:55-82. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews Inc.(with K. Woolard).
• 1995 The impact of language socialization on grammatical development. In Handbook of Child Language. P. Fletcher & B. MacWhinney eds. pp. 73-94. Oxford: Blackwell. (with E. Ochs).
• 1996 Creating Evidence: Making Sense of the Written Word in Bosavi. In Interaction and Grammar. E. Ochs, E. Schegloff, and S. Thompson eds. pp. 45-60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 2000 Introducing Kaluli literacy: A chronology of influences. In Regimes of Language. P. Kroskrity ed. pp. 293-327. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research.
• 2002 Marking time: The dichotomizing discourse of multiple temporalities. Current Anthropology. 43: 5-17.
• 2004 Language socialization. In A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. A. Duranti, ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell. (With D. Kulick).
• 2007 Langue et lieu dans l’univers de l’enfance. Anthropologie et Sociétés, 31, 1:15-37.

Recent Publications

• 2007 Cultural Processes and Linguistic Mediations: Pacific Explorations. In Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies. Oxford University Press, pp. 3-29. (with M. Makihara).
• 2007 Found in translating: Reflexive language across time and texts. In Consequences of Contact: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies. Oxford University Press, pp. 140-165. (M. Makihara, co- editor).
• 2008 Language socialization: An historical overview. In Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol. 8: Language Socialization, ed. P. Duff and N. Hornberger. NY: Springer, pp. 1-13. (with E. Ochs).
• 2008 Enquoting voices, accomplishing talk: Uses of be + like in Instant Messaging. Language & Communication. (with G. Jones).
• In Prep Different Words, Different Worlds: Language and Social Change in Bosavi, PNG. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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