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Record Nr.

UNINA9910367629903321

Autore

Barker George Carpenter <1912-1958.>

Titolo

Pachuco : An American-Spanish Argot and Its Social Functions in Tucson, Arizona / / George Carpenter Barker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson : , : University of Arizona Press, , 1979, 1950

©1979, 1950

ISBN

9780816540372

0816540373

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (46 pages )

Soggetti

Spanish language - Dialects

Manners and customs

Gangs

Cant

Spanish language - Dialects - Arizona

Pachuco

Arizona Tucson

Arizona

Tucson (Ariz.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

George Carpenter Barker's first major research project was field work in Tucson, Arizona on the function of language in a situation of culture contact. The results of his doctoral dissertation, "Social Functions of Language in a Mexican-American Community." The data and conclusions presented in his dissertation showed his perceptiveness in cross-cultural situations.  He conducted additional field work on the social functions of language in cross-cultural situations in Tucson in 1947-48. This work centered around interviews with Mexican-American youths. Barker's quiet friendliness and understanding won the confidence of boys who were operating at the fringes, and who were his informants for this Pachuco study.