Shirley Brice Heath is the author of Words at Work and Play: Three Decades in Family and Community Life (2012), Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms (1983), and more. She is a leading social historian and ethnographer of family life, and is Margery Bailey Professor of English and Dramatic Literature and Professor of Linguistics, Emerita, at Stanford University.
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