'We had lighter tongues': Making and mediating Gullah/Geechee personhood in the South Carolina Lowcountry

Language and Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 147-159

  Smalls, Krystal A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Gullah; Language ideology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857801861     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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