Book Review: Words at Work and Play: Three Decades in Family and Community Life (pp. 68-70)

Abstract

Three Decades in Family and Community Life, Shirley Brice Heath revisits, after 30 years, the grown children of the Trackton and Roadville communities she introduced in her seminal 1983 work Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms. In her new work, as the subtitle suggests, Brice explores how the life experiences of these South Carolina families have influenced their relationships and use of language. As with the original work, this book represents a major contribution to the fields of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics.