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Author Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich.

Title Translating childhoods : immigrant youth, language, and culture / Marjorie Faulstich Orellana.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 183 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Rutgers series in childhood studies
Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-176) and index.
Contents Translating frames -- Landscapes of childhood -- Home work -- Public para-phrasing -- Transculturations -- Transformations -- Translating childhoods.
Summary Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, explores the "work" children perform as language and culture brokers. Children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. From ethnographic data and research, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators and considers how sociocultural learning and dev.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Children of immigrants -- Language.
Children of immigrants -- Language.
Children of immigrants.
Translating and interpreting.
Translating and interpreting.
Immigrants -- Language.
Immigrants -- Language.
Immigrants.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich. Translating childhoods. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 9780813545226 (DLC) 2008036401 (OCoLC)244476557
ISBN 9780813548630 (electronic book)
0813548632 (electronic book)
0813545226
9780813545226
0813545234
9780813545233