Language as cultural practice : Mexicanos en el norte /
This is an ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families in California and Texas. It illustrates cases where language is used by speakers to choose between self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories.
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| Language: | English |
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Mahwah, N.J. :
L. Erlbaum Associates, Publishers,
2002
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Framing Our Agenda; 2 Mexicanos in California and Texas; 3 Language as Cultural Identification; 4 Enacting Spanish Maintenance; 5 Narrative Production Across the Bilingual Continuum; 6 Doing School at Home; 7 Language Socialization in Theory and Practice; 8 Bilingualism in Time and Space; References; Author Index; Subject Index.
