| Description |
viii, 198 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 9 |
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Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 9
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| Contents |
Women and second-language use : an introdution / Pauline Burton -- Open Castilian, closed Aymara? Bilingual women in the Yungas of La Paz (Bolivia) / Alison Spedding -- The presence and absence of speech in the communication of gender / Penelope Harvey -- Casual chat and ethnic identity : women's second-language use among Buryats in the USSR / Caroline Humphrey -- Women and second-language knowledge in rural Soviet Georgia : an outline / Nina Chinchaladze and Tamara Dragadze -- Women and linguistic innovation in Brittany / Maryon McDonald -- The "Death" of East Sutherland Gaelic : death by women? / Evi Constantinidou -- French : no one's language, therefore everyone's language : convent speech in lower Zaïre / Joan F. Burke -- Language and diaspora : the use of Portuguese, English and Kinkani by Catholic Goan women / Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes -- A note on my experience as a student, a teacher and an interpreter of English in China / Liu Hong -- Forging a bilingual identity : a writer's testimony / Ketaki Kushari Dyson -- Engendering language difference / Elizabeth Tonkin |
| Analysis |
Bilingualism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Bilingualism.
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Women -- Language.
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| Author |
Ardener, Shirley.
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Burton, Pauline.
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Dyson, Ketaki Kushari, 1940-
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| LC no. |
93026394 |
| ISBN |
0854967370 |
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0854968644 |
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