Language as Cultural Practice: Mexicanos en el Norte

by Robert J. Bayley and Sandra R. Schecter

Book Overview

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"