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Record Nr.

UNINA9911020017603321

Titolo

Homegirls : language and cultural practice among Latina youth gangs / / Norma Mendoza-Denton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-34846-9

9786612348464

0-470-69372-X

0-470-69297-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

New directions in ethnography ; ; 2

Classificazione

801.03

401/.41

Disciplina

401.41

Soggetti

Youth - Language

Latin Americans - Languages

Teenage girls - Language

Sociolinguistics

Language and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-323) and index.

Includes discography: p. 323.

Includes filmography: p. 323.

Nota di contenuto

List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgments. Acknowledgment of Sources. Introduction. 1. La Migra. 2. Beginning Fieldwork. 3. Norte and Sur: Government, School, and Research Perspectives. 4. Hemispheric Localism: Language, Racialized Nationalism, and the Politicization of Youth. 5. 'Muy Macha': Gendered Performances and the Avoidance of Social Injury. 6. Smile Now Cry Later: Memorializing Practices Linking Language, Materiality, And Embodiment. 7. Icons and Exemplars: Ethnographic Approaches in Variationist Sociolinguistics. 8. Variation in a Community of Practice. 9. 'That's the whole thing [t5iN]!': Discourse Markers and Teenage Speech. 10. Conclusion. References. Appendix. Index

Sommario/riassunto

Concentrating on California's largest Latino girl gangs - the Norte and



Sur gangs - this text traces how elements of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges are used to signal social affiliation and come together to form youth gang styles. The book also explores the relationship between language and the body in these gangs.