Publications

Publication details [#1087]

Barker, George Carpenter. 1950. Pachuco: An American-Spanish argot and its social functions in Tucson, Arizona. University of Arizona Press. 46 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

argot | goal | social status | value

Language as a subject

Pachuco

Annotation

Investigation of the relationship between the Pachuco argot (spoken by groups of Mexican-American boys in the American Southwest) and the social positions, goals and values of its speakers in Tucson.

Reprints

Hernandez-Chavez, Eduardo, Andrew D. Cohen and Anthony F. Beltramo. 1975. In Hernandez-Chavez, Eduardo, Andrew D. Cohen and Anthony F. Beltramo, eds. El lenguaje de los Chicanos: Regional and social characteristics of language used by Mexican-Americans. Center for Applied Linguistics. pp. 183–201.