Linguistic capital: Language as a socio-economic resource among Kurdish and Arabic women in Turkey

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 829-853

  Smits, Jeroen ^a   Gündüz Hoşgör, Ayşe ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Arabs; Kurds; Linguistic capital; Patriarchy; Speaking Turkish; Turkey; Women

Indexed keywords

FEMALE EDUCATION; LANGUAGE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WOMENS STATUS;

TURKEY;

EID: 0141837905     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0141987032000109050     Document Type: Article

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