Language as Cultural Practice: Mexicanos en el Norte

by Robert J. Bayley and Sandra R. Schecter

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0805835342

ISBN13:9780805835342

Release Date:June 2002

Publisher:Routledge

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"

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