Reading Jewish signs: The socialization of multilingual literacies among Hasidic women and girls in Brooklyn, New York

Text and Talk

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 621-641

  Fader, Ayala ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Language socialization; Multilingualism; Nonliberal religious community; Semiotic ideologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749147436     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2008.032     Document Type: Review

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