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Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms (Cambridge Paperback Library) (Reprint Edition) by Shirley Brice Heath, Shirley Brice (Stanford University Paperback, 426 Pages, Published 1983 ISBN-10: 0-521-27319-6 / 0521273196 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-27319-0 / 9780521273190 Ways with Words, first published in 1983, is a classic study of children learning to use language at home and at school in two communities only a few miles apart in the south-eastern United States. 'Roadville' is a white working-class community of families steeped for generations in the life of text |