Ethnic personal names and multiple identities in Anglophone Caribbean speech communities in Latin America

Language in Society

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 577-608

  Aceto, Michael ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creole; Ethnicity; Identity; Nicknames; Onomastics; Panama; Pseudonyms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036767621     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404502314040     Document Type: Article

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