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

• Autore: Schecter Sandra R
• Pubblicazione: Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44/0973
• Soggetto topico: Sociolinguistics - United States; Mexican Americans - Languages; Children - Language
• Altri autori: BayleyRobert <1943->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Language as cultural practice
• ISBN: 1-282-32657-0; 9786612326578; 1-4106-1247-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783698303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II