'I'm Mexican, remember?' Constructing ethnic identities via authenticating discourse

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 194-220

  Shenk, Petra Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentication; Ethnicity; Identity; Ideology; Interaction; Stance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247383972     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2007.00318.x     Document Type: Article

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