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UNINA9910783698303321 |
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Autore |
Schecter Sandra R |
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Titolo |
Language as cultural practice [[electronic resource] ] : Mexicanos en el norte / / Sandra R. Schecter, Robert Bayley |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-32657-0 |
9786612326578 |
1-4106-1247-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sociolinguistics - United States |
Mexican Americans - Languages |
Children - Language |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-212) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Machine generated contents note: Foreword -- Ana Celia Zentella -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Framing Our Agenda -- 2 Mexicanos in California and Texas -- 3 Language as Cultural Identification -- 4 Enacting Spanish Maintenance -- 5 Narrative Production Across the Bilingual Contin- -- uum -- 6 Doing School at Home -- 7 Language Socialization in Theory and Practice -- 8 Bilingualism in Time and Space -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Language as Cultural Practice: Mexicanos en el Norte offers a vivid ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas. This account illustrates a variety of cases where language is used by speakers to choose between alternative self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories, such as ethnicity, gender, and class. It shows that language socialization--instantiated in language choices and patterns of use in sociocultural and sociohistorical contexts characterized b |
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