What multilingualism? Agency and unintended consequences of multilingual practices in a Barcelona health clinic

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1209-1221

  Moyer, Melissa G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Health; Institutional order; Language ideologies; Migration; Multilingualism; Social actors and agency

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251607497     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.08.024     Document Type: Article

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