'Who was the best?': Power, knowledge and rationality in bilingual girls' code choices

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-27

  Bolonyai, Agnes ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Code switching; Expert knowledge; Language and gender; Power; Rational choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844596339     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-6441.2005.00279.x     Document Type: Article

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