The pragmatics of reading prayers: Learning the Act of Contrition in Spanish-based religious education classes (doctrina)

Text and Talk

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 581-602

  Baquedano López, Patricia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Graduate School of Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Language socialization; Prayer; Reading; Religious communities; Ritual; Sacred text

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749146680     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2008.030     Document Type: Review

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