Pushing Boundaries: Language and Culture in a Mexicano Community

by Olga A V Squez, Sheila M. Shannon, Sheila M Shannon, et al.

Book Overview

Children in Mexicano communities learn to use language in a variety of ways. At times they use both Spanish and English in the same conversation or help friends and family members enter mainstream society by translating English to Spanish for them. Pushing Boundaries describes Eastside, a Mexicano community in northern California, analysing language learning and language socialization in the context of real, problematic, important activities in people's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521419352
• ISBN13: 9780521419352
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"