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Publication details [#1088]

Barker, George Carpenter. 1972. Social functions of language in a Mexican-American community. University of Arizona Press. 56 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
bilingualism | culture | ethnicity | functions of language | minority | variability

Annotation

Report of an inquiry into how language functions in the life of a bilingual minority group in the process of cultural change. The author is especially interested in the wide variations in the linguistic behavior between members of the same ethnic minority group.

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. 170–182.
. 1974.