Socializing heteroglossia among miskitu children on the Caribbean coast of nicaragua

Pragmatics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 495-522

  Minks, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Code switching; Creole English; Heteroglossia; Language socialization; Miskitu; Multilingualism; Peer play; Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455236680     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.20.4.02min     Document Type: Article

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