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I am my language : discourses of women & children in the borderlands /

Explores language practices and discourse patterns of Mexican-origin mothers and the language socialization of their children. Drawing on women's own experiences as both mothers and borderland residents, the author combines personal odyssey with ethnographic research to show new ways to connect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: González, Norma
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Tucson: A Place in the Borderlands. The Borderlands
  • 2. Las Familias. The Discarding of Paradigm
  • Methods and Participants: The How and the Who
  • The Pilot Study
  • Interviewing
  • 3. When the Facts Won't Stay Put: Finding Emotion in All the Wrong Places
  • 4. The Hearts of the Children: Emotion, Language, and Identity. Emotion as Examinable
  • Disambiguation and the Construction of Selfhood
  • A Metaphor for Language Use: The Dialogical Staircase, an Interactional Double Helix
  • Disambiguation and Self-Authorship
  • 5. Negotiating Ideologies across Social Memories. Women and Language
  • Gender Ideologies and Bailes Folkloricois
  • 6. Testimonies of Border Identities: "Una mujer acomedida donde quiera cabe". Native-born and Immigrant Households
  • The Fracturing of Gender Ideologies
  • 7. Household Language Use: The Push and the Pull. Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Language Use
  • 8. Where's the Culture? Latinos and Culture
  • Culture and "Multicultural Awareness"
  • Processual Approaches to Culture
  • Culture in the Borderlands
  • If Not Culture, Then What?
  • Language and Culture
  • From "Language and Culture" to Language Ideologies
  • 9. Beyond the "Disuniting" of America: Implications for Schooling and Public Policy. Implications for Educational Public Policy and Schooling
  • The Dialectics of the Centripetal and the Centrifugal
  • Weaving the Threads Together
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.