Thoroughly mixed yet thoroughly ethnic: Indexing class with ethnonyms

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Smith, Andrea L ^a   Eisenstein, Anna ^a  

^a LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adequation; Class; Deixis; Distinction; Ethnicity; Ethnonyms; Indexicality; Lebanese; Racialization; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884781475     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jola.12012     Document Type: Article

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