Border talk: Narratives of Spanish language encounters in the United States

Language and Intercultural Communication

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 176-196

  Pomerantza, Anne ^a   Schwartz, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical linguistics; Foreign language education; Narrative; Spanish; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960714164     PISSN: 14708477     EISSN: 1747759X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2010.550923     Document Type: Article

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