Silvia Pessoa

List of John Benjamins publications for which Silvia Pessoa plays a role.

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Achugar, Mariana and Silvia Pessoa 2009 Power and place: Language attitudes towards Spanish in a bilingual academic community in Southwest Texas Spanish in Context 6:2, pp. 199–223 | Article
This paper explores the role of Spanish in an academic community in Southwest Texas in order to demonstrate how power, history and place affect linguistic attitudes. The changing status of Spanish from being an index of low wage paying jobs to being a marker of membership in an exclusive academic… read more