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Publication details [#32439]

Margolin, David R. 2003. Levels of context, islands of use: Tawahka in the Honduran Mosquitia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 163 : 123–136.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
ISBN
0165-2516

Annotation

This paper deals with the sociolinguistic situation of the Tawahka people of the Honduran Mosquita area. It examines the different levels of context within which Tawahka, Miskitu and Spanish are spoken, in order to understand the complex mechanisms influencing language choice on the societal and individual levels.