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Publication details [#56327]

Swinehart, Karl F. 2012. Metadiscursive regime and register formation on Aymara radio. Language & Communication 32 (2) : 102–113.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

authority | language status | language use | loanword | radio

Language as a subject

Aymara

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and discourse analysis of a broadcast of the oldest Aymara-language radio station in Bolivia, this paper claims that the metadiscursive regime active at the station helps to reinforce a special register of Aymara.