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Publication details [#27587]

Hamel, Rainer Enrique. 1996. The inroads of literacy in the Hñähñú communities in central Mexico. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (119) : 13–42.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | communication | ethnolinguistics | literacy | written language

Language as a subject

Hñähñú | Spanish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper examines how literacy practices penetrated the nonliterate indigenous Hñähñú communities in Mexico, how this changed their discourse universe and how it affected their survival as distinct ethnolinguistic groups.