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1 online resource (xv, 175 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. No man's land -- I: Lícamente -- II: The death of Leonardo -- III: Doló dasnt protect as -- 2. The Cobden glossaries -- I: Constructing a hybrid alphabet -- II: A kind of algebraic notation -- III: New contexts, new texts, same moves -- IV: A scene of writing: the village hall -- V: The Cobden glossaries -- 3. Some laugh, others frown -- I: "Is this text a joke, or what?" -- II: Cracking the ninth-century code: three scenes of reading -- III: Three ways of reading a Cobden glossary -- IV: Freirean dilemmas -- V: Wallerstein on the case of the Cobden glossaries -- VI: Conclusion -- 4. Making it legal: the social construction of hybrid alphabets -- I: Strictly speaking: emic versus etic -- II: Writing in the no man's land between languages -- III: How to legitimize a hybrid alphabet: three variations on a genre -- Epilogue: a game as old as the alphabet? -- Commentaries -- Opting for the vernacular / Peter Elbow -- Translanguaging and abecedarios ilegales / Ofelia García -- Ways with letters and sounds / James Paul Gee -- The power of the single case / Hervé Varenne -- Ethnomethodology and mestizaje: the Cherán connection / Luis Vázquez León -- Panchaan / Karen Velasquez -- Afterword / Tomás Mario Kalmar |
| Summary |
How do ""illegal aliens"" chart the speech sounds of colloquial English? This book is timeless in offering an unusually direct entry into how a group of Mexican fruit pickers analyze their first encounter with local American speech in a tiny rural Midwestern community in the United States. Readers see close up how intelligently migrant workers help each other use what they already know-the alphabetic principle of one letter, one sound-to teach each other, from scratch, at the very first contact, a language which none of them can speak. They see how and why the strategies adult immigrants actua |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- Study and teaching -- Spanish speakers.
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English language -- Study and teaching -- United States
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Languages in contact -- United States
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English language -- Self-instruction
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Adult education -- United States
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Hispanic Americans -- Education
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Hispanic Americans -- Languages
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Bilingualism -- United States
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English language -- Alphabet.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Adult education
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Bilingualism
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English language
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English language -- Alphabet
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English language -- Study and teaching
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English language -- Study and teaching -- Spanish speakers
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Hispanic Americans -- Education
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Languages in contact
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Self-instruction
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Elbow, Peter, contributor.
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García, Ofelia, contributor.
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Gee, James Paul, contributor.
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Varenne, Hervé, 1948- contributor.
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Vázquez León, Luis, contributor.
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Velasquez, Karen, contributor.
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| ISBN |
9781317620112 |
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1317620119 |
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9781315753126 |
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131575312X |
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9781317620099 |
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1317620097 |
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9781317620105 |
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1317620100 |
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