Competence and ideology in performance: Language games, identity and Israeli bureaucracy in personal narrative

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 96-113

  Schely Newman, Esther ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Codeswitching; Israel; Narrative; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011152333     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462939809366215     Document Type: Article

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