Power and place: Language attitudes towards Spanish in a bilingual academic community in Southwest Texas

Spanish in Context

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 199-223

  Achugar, Mariana ^a   Pessoa, Silvia ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMC 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Discourse analysis of attitudes; Language attitudes; Spanish in the U.S.

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950763562     PISSN: 15710718     EISSN: 15710726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/sic.6.2.03ach     Document Type: Article

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