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Language as Cultural Practice - Mexicanos en el Norte (Hardcover)
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Language as Cultural Practice - Mexicanos en el Norte (Hardcover)
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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 shows that
language socialization--instantiated in language choices and
patterns of use in sociocultural and sociohistorical contexts
characterized by ambiguity and flux--is both a dynamic and a fluid
process.
The study emphasizes the links between familial patterns of
language use and language socialization practices on the one hand,
and children's development of bilingual and biliterate identities
on the other. Using a framework emerging from their selection of
two geographically distinct localities with differing demographic
features, Schecter and Bayley compare patterns of meaning suggested
by the use of Spanish and English in speech and literacy
activities, as well as by the symbolic importance ascribed by
families and societal institutions (such as schools) to the
maintenance and use of the two languages.
"Language as Cultural Practice"
*provides a detailed account of the diversity of language
practices and patterns of use in language minority homes;
*offers educators detailed information on the language ecology of
Latino homes in two geographically diverse communities--San
Antonio, Texas, and the San Francisco Bay Area, California;
*shows the diversity within Mexican-American communities in the
United States--families profiled range from rural families in south
Texas to upper middle class professional families in northern
California;
*provides data to correct the prevalent misconception that
maintenance of Spanish interferes with the acquisition of English;
and
*contributes to the study of language socialization by showing
that the process extends throughout the lifetime and that it is an
interactive rather than a one-way process.
This book will particularly interest researchers and professionals
in linguistics, anthropology, applied linguistics, and education,
and will be useful as a text in graduate courses in these areas
that address language socialization and learning.
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