William S Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 752709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William S Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | William S |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Internal State Words: Cultural and Situational Variation in Vocabulary Usage 1
Cultural variation in the function and uses of language has important consequences for speakers of variants, particularly with respect to educational performance. The social consequences of a variant way of using language can affect teacher-pupil as well as peer relationships. The consequences of a teacher’s attitude towards a given dialect—including vocabulary differences—are profound. “Internal state” words can be shown to map onto the domain o…
On the Dialect Question and Reading
This chapter describes studies on dialect variation and discusses the implications of the studies for reading performance. A sizable body of literature exists on phonology and grammar as they relate to reading interference among black dialect speakers. Generally speaking, the distinction between grammatical and phonological features of black dialect is not clear-cut. The chapter reviews some relevant questions for research that are suggested by t…
Contents, Vol. 16, 1973
Varia
A Developmental Investigation of Standard and Nonstandard English among Black and White Children
Data are reported and interpreted involving language imitation, comprehension, and free production of two English dialects. The major subgroupings of 360 subjects involved two races (black and white), sex, socioeconomic level (low SES and middle SES), and age (5, 8, and 10 years). Rate of improvement measures indicated that blacks improve at the same rate as whites in responding to standard English sentences. According to correlational results, t…
Acquisition of the Mental State Verb Know by 2- to 5-Year-Old Children
The development of pretend language: Toward an understanding of the child's theory of mind
The language of thinking: Metacognitive and conditional words
The consistency of human behavior, such as it is, is due entirely to the fact men have formulated their desires, and subsequently rationalized them, in terms of words.... For evil, then, as well as for good, words make us the human beings we actually are.Huxley (1962, pp. 4–5)
Reading comprehension
Reading comprehension
Patterns of information requests
Intensive naturalistic study of middle- and working-class northern Black and White kindergartners' requestive language functions was conducted in both family and school environments. Situation, nature of the dyadic interaction, and request type were important influences, thus amplifying and extending earlier, more sociological, formulations
The semantic‐pragmatic distinction in the investigation of mental state words: The role of the situation
The semantic uses of mental state words used by children 41⁄2 to 5 years of age were compared. The children were from two racial (black and white) and two social class (working and professional) groups. The sample of language was collected in 10 different temporal situations which were subsumed under two broad categories of situation (home or school). The total corpus of language consisted of one million words. A racial difference in the use of m…
Contextual constraints on usage of cognitive words
Child Language - Nicholas J. Anastasiow & Michael L. Hanes. Language patterns of poverty children. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1976
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Situation and task in young children's talk∗
Two studies were conducted in which the speech of 3‐to 4‐year‐old, black Head Start children was compared in two situations; a trip to a local supermarket and discussion about the trip upon their return to the classroom. Comparisons were carried out using a method of speech‐act analysis developed by Dore (1977) to supplement more standard psycholinguistic measures of language development. Results of the first study showed that speech in the two s…
J. McH. Sinclair and R. M. Coulthard. Towards an analysis of discourse. London: Oxford University Press, 1975
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Story recall in young Black and White children: Effects of racial group membership, race of experimenter, and dialect
Children's language and maternal control
Jenny Cook‐Gumperz. Social Control and Socialization: A Study of Class Differences in the Language of Maternal Control. Primary Socialization, Language and Education Series. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. xii + 290 pp. Figures, appendix, bibliography, and index. $16.95
Acquisition of the Mental State Verb Know by 2- to 5-Year-Old Children
Situation and task in young children's talk∗
Two studies were conducted in which the speech of 3‐to 4‐year‐old, black Head Start children was compared in two situations; a trip to a local supermarket and discussion about the trip upon their return to the classroom. Comparisons were carried out using a method of speech‐act analysis developed by Dore (1977) to supplement more standard psycholinguistic measures of language development. Results of the first study showed that speech in the two s…
Contextual constraints on usage of cognitive words
Story recall in young Black and White children: Effects of racial group membership, race of experimenter, and dialect
The development of pretend language: Toward an understanding of the child's theory of mind
The semantic‐pragmatic distinction in the investigation of mental state words: The role of the situation
The semantic uses of mental state words used by children 41⁄2 to 5 years of age were compared. The children were from two racial (black and white) and two social class (working and professional) groups. The sample of language was collected in 10 different temporal situations which were subsumed under two broad categories of situation (home or school). The total corpus of language consisted of one million words. A racial difference in the use of m…
Children's language and maternal control
Jenny Cook‐Gumperz. Social Control and Socialization: A Study of Class Differences in the Language of Maternal Control. Primary Socialization, Language and Education Series. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. xii + 290 pp. Figures, appendix, bibliography, and index. $16.95
Story recall in young Black and White children: Effects of racial group membership, race of experimenter, and dialect
J. McH. Sinclair and R. M. Coulthard. Towards an analysis of discourse. London: Oxford University Press, 1975
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Situation and task in young children's talk∗
Two studies were conducted in which the speech of 3‐to 4‐year‐old, black Head Start children was compared in two situations; a trip to a local supermarket and discussion about the trip upon their return to the classroom. Comparisons were carried out using a method of speech‐act analysis developed by Dore (1977) to supplement more standard psycholinguistic measures of language development. Results of the first study showed that speech in the two s…
Child Language - Nicholas J. Anastasiow & Michael L. Hanes. Language patterns of poverty children. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1976
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The semantic‐pragmatic distinction in the investigation of mental state words: The role of the situation
The semantic uses of mental state words used by children 41⁄2 to 5 years of age were compared. The children were from two racial (black and white) and two social class (working and professional) groups. The sample of language was collected in 10 different temporal situations which were subsumed under two broad categories of situation (home or school). The total corpus of language consisted of one million words. A racial difference in the use of m…
Contextual constraints on usage of cognitive words
Patterns of information requests
Intensive naturalistic study of middle- and working-class northern Black and White kindergartners' requestive language functions was conducted in both family and school environments. Situation, nature of the dyadic interaction, and request type were important influences, thus amplifying and extending earlier, more sociological, formulations
Reading comprehension
Reading comprehension
The language of thinking: Metacognitive and conditional words
The consistency of human behavior, such as it is, is due entirely to the fact men have formulated their desires, and subsequently rationalized them, in terms of words.... For evil, then, as well as for good, words make us the human beings we actually are.Huxley (1962, pp. 4–5)
The development of pretend language: Toward an understanding of the child's theory of mind
Acquisition of the Mental State Verb Know by 2- to 5-Year-Old Children
Contents, Vol. 16, 1973
Varia
A Developmental Investigation of Standard and Nonstandard English among Black and White Children
Data are reported and interpreted involving language imitation, comprehension, and free production of two English dialects. The major subgroupings of 360 subjects involved two races (black and white), sex, socioeconomic level (low SES and middle SES), and age (5, 8, and 10 years). Rate of improvement measures indicated that blacks improve at the same rate as whites in responding to standard English sentences. According to correlational results, t…
On the Dialect Question and Reading
This chapter describes studies on dialect variation and discusses the implications of the studies for reading performance. A sizable body of literature exists on phonology and grammar as they relate to reading interference among black dialect speakers. Generally speaking, the distinction between grammatical and phonological features of black dialect is not clear-cut. The chapter reviews some relevant questions for research that are suggested by t…
Internal State Words: Cultural and Situational Variation in Vocabulary Usage 1
Cultural variation in the function and uses of language has important consequences for speakers of variants, particularly with respect to educational performance. The social consequences of a variant way of using language can affect teacher-pupil as well as peer relationships. The consequences of a teacher’s attitude towards a given dialect—including vocabulary differences—are profound. “Internal state” words can be shown to map onto the domain o…
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