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Publication details [#38554]
French, Brigittine M. 2003. The politics of Mayan linguistics in Guatemala: native speakers, expert analysts, and the nation. Pragmatics 13 (4) : 483–498. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
IPRA
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
This paper investigates the emergence and transformation of linguistic analysis as an authoritative knowledge domain in the context of competing Guatemalan nationalist agendas from the 1920s to the mid 1980s.