02869nam 2200613 a 450 991078369830332120230607220427.01-282-32657-097866123265781-4106-1247-3(CKB)1000000000244672(EBL)227512(OCoLC)59007399(SSID)ssj0000188915(PQKBManifestationID)11179748(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188915(PQKBWorkID)10153852(PQKB)10830819(MiAaPQ)EBC227512(Au-PeEL)EBL227512(CaPaEBR)ebr10118416(CaONFJC)MIL601009(EXLCZ)99100000000024467220010709d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLanguage as cultural practice[electronic resource] Mexicanos en el norte /Sandra R. Schecter, Robert BayleyMahwah, N.J. L. Erlbaum20021 online resource (248 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8058-3534-2 0-8058-3533-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-212) and indexes.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.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 bSociolinguisticsUnited StatesMexican AmericansLanguagesChildrenLanguageSociolinguisticsMexican AmericansLanguages.ChildrenLanguage.306.44/0973Schecter Sandra R1486468Bayley Robert1943-1486469MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783698303321Language as cultural practice3705947UNINA