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Author Schecter, Sandra R.

Title Language as cultural practice : Mexicanos en el norte / Sandra R. Schecter, Robert Bayley.

Publication Info. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 224 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and indexes.
Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Framing Our Agenda; 2 Mexicanos in California and Texas; 3 Language as Cultural Identification; 4 Enacting Spanish Maintenance; 5 Narrative Production Across the Bilingual Continuum; 6 Doing School at Home; 7 Language Socialization in Theory and Practice; 8 Bilingualism in Time and Space; References; Author Index; Subject Index.
Summary This is an ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families in California and Texas. It illustrates cases where language is used by speakers to choose between self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Sociolinguistics -- United States.
Sociolinguistics.
United States.
Mexican Americans -- Languages.
Mexican Americans.
Language and languages.
Children -- Language.
Children -- Language.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Children.
Added Author Bayley, Robert, 1943-
Other Form: Print version: Schecter, Sandra R. Language as cultural practice. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2002 0805835334 0805835342 (DLC) 2001040464 (OCoLC)47297646
ISBN 1410612473 (electronic book)
9781410612472 (electronic book)
0805835334 (alkaline paper)
9780805835335 (alkaline paper)
0805835342 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780805835342 (paperback ; alkaline paper)