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Title Latino language and literacy in ethnolinguistic Chicago / edited by Marcia Farr
Published Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 398 pages) : illustrations
Contents Latinos and diversity in a global city: language and identity at home, school, church, and work / Marcia Farr, Elias Dominguez Barajas -- Within the family circle --!A mi no me manda nadie! Individualism and identity in Mexican Ranchero speech / Marcia Farr -- Sociocognitive aspects of proverb use in a Mexican transnational social network / Elias Dominguez Barajas -- "Successful" and "unsuccessful" literacies of two Puerto Rican families in Chicago / Tony Del Valle -- The bilingual echo: children as language mediators in a dual-language school / Irma M. Olmedo -- Latino children's Spanish use in a Chicago dual-immersion classroom / Kim Potowski -- Global links from the postindustrial heartland: language, Internet use, and identity development among U.S.-born Mexican high school girls / Jennifer L. Cohen -- Writing in two languages/living in two worlds: a rhetorical analysis of Mexican-American written discourse / Maria Spicer-Escalante -- Within community spaces -- Resisting assimilation: Mexican immigrant mothers writing together / Janise Hurtig -- Readings with Mexican immigrant mothers: expanding our horizons by expanding theirs / Ana Ubilluz Colomb -- Literacy and religion: reading, writing, and gender among Mexican women in Chicago / Marcia Farr -- The magic of verbal art: Juanita's Santeria initiation / Richard G. Gelb -- What it means to speak the same language: an ethnolinguistic study of workplace communication / Jeanne Weiland Herrick
Summary This volume--along with its companion Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy in the City's Neighborhoods--fills an important gap in research on Chicago and, more generally, on language use in globalized metropolitan areas. Often cited as a quintessential American city, Chicago is, and always has been, a city of immigrants
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Anthropological linguistics -- Illinois -- Chicago
Hispanic Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Languages
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
Anthropological linguistics
Illinois -- Chicago
Form Electronic book
Author Farr, Marcia
LC no. 2004047232
ISBN 1410612074
9781410612076
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