Publications

Publication details [#44076]

Trinch, Shonna L. 2006. Bilingualism and representation: Locating Spanish-English contact in legal institutional memory. Language in Society 35 (4) : 559–593.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | language contact | multiculturalism | official language | representational structure

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses how the U.S. prestigious societal institution of the official legal record shows some permeability, given the fact that it absorbs some discursive representations of the Latinos, a less dominant bilingual and bicultural group.