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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783698303321

Autore

Schecter Sandra R

Titolo

Language as cultural practice [[electronic resource] ] : Mexicanos en el norte / / Sandra R. Schecter, Robert Bayley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum, 2002

ISBN

1-282-32657-0

9786612326578

1-4106-1247-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BayleyRobert <1943->

Disciplina

306.44/0973

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics - United States

Mexican Americans - Languages

Children - Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-212) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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