Enculturation Processes in Primary Language Acquisition - Anna Dina L. Joaquin
The interactional instinct for cultural learning
Enculturation Processes in Primary Language Acquisition - Anna Dina L. Joaquin
Anna Dina L. Joaquin [+]
California State University
Anna Dina L. Joaquin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and TESL at California State University, Northridge. She is co-author (with Namhee Lee, Lisa Mikesell, Andrea Mates and John Schumann) of The Interactional Instinct: The Evolution and Acquisition of Language (OUP, 2009).
Description
This chapter argues that we are born with an Interactional Instinct (Lee et al., 2009), which is motivated by the sociostatic value of attachment and affiliation.