Love, diminutives, and gender socialization in andean mother–child narrative conversations

Spanish-Language Narration and Literacy: Culture, Cognition, and Emotion

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 119-141

  King, Kendall A ^a   Gallagher, Colleen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Diminutive; Emotion; Evaluation; Evaluative morphology; Maternal speech; Narrative; Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863512617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511815669.008     Document Type: Chapter

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