"They Don't Get Speak Our Language Right": Language Standardization, Power And Migration among the Q'eqchi' Maya

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Romero, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Language ideologies, dialectology; Mayan languages; Mesoamerica; Q'eqchi'

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867220063     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2012.01146.x     Document Type: Article

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