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Author Schecter, Sandra R.

Title Language as cultural practice : Mexicanos en el norte / Sandra R. Schecter, Robert Bayley
Published Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 224 pages)
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and indexes
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Sociolinguistics -- United States
Mexican Americans -- Languages
Children -- Language.
Child Language
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
Children -- Language
Sociolinguistics
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Bayley, Robert, 1943-
ISBN 1410612473
9781410612472
1282326570
9781282326576
9786612326578
6612326573