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Language as Cultural Practice

Mexicanos en el Norte

By: Sandra R. Schecter,Robert J. Bayley

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Language as Cultural Practice

Mexicanos en el Norte

By: Sandra R. Schecter,Robert J. Bayley

Language as Cultural Practice: Mexicanos en el Norte offers a vivid ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas. This account illustrates a variety of cases where language is used by speakers to choose between alternative self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories, such as ethnicity, gender, and class. It shows that language socialization--instantiated in language choices and patterns of use in sociocultural and sociohistorical contexts characterized by ambiguity and flux--is both a dynamic and a fluid process. The study emphasizes the links between familial patterns of language use and language socialization practices on the one hand, and children's development of bilingual and biliterate identities on the other. Using a framework emerging from their selection of two geographically distinct localities with differing demographic features, Schecter and Bayley compare patterns of meaning suggested by the use of Spanish and English in speech and literacy activities, as well as by the symbolic importance ascribed by families and societal institutions (such as schools) to the maintenance and use of the two languages. Language as Cultural Practice: *provides a detailed account of the diversity of language practices and patterns of use in language minority homes; *offers educators detailed information on the language ecology of Latino homes in two geographically diverse communities--San Antonio, Texas, and the San Francisco Bay Area, California; *shows the diversity within Mexican-American communities in the United States--families profiled range from rural families in south Texas to upper middle class professional families in northern California; *provides data to correct the prevalent misconception that maintenance of Spanish interferes with the acquisition of English; and *contributes to the study of language socialization by showing that the process extends throughout the lifetime and that it is an interactive rather than a one-way process. This book will particularly interest researchers and professionals in linguistics, anthropology, applied linguistics, and education, and will be useful as a text in graduate courses in these areas that address language socialization and learning.

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248

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Routledge

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1135660050

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9781135660055

Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change

By: Robert A. Mickler,Richard A. Birdsey,John Hom

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Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change

By: Robert A. Mickler,Richard A. Birdsey,John Hom

Five years of research carried out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Services' Northern Global Change Program, contributing to our understanding of the effects of multiples stresses on forest ecosystems over multiple spatial and temporal scales. At the physiological level, reports explore changes in growth and biomass, species composition, and wildlife habitat; at the landscape scale, the abundance distribution, and dynamics of species, populations, and communities are addressed. Chapters include studies of nutrient depletion, climate and atmospheric deposition, carbon and nitrogen cycling, insect and disease outbreaks, biotic feedbacks with the atmosphere, interacting effects of multiple stresses, and modeling the regional effects of global change. The book provides sound ecological information for policymakers and land-use planners as well as for researchers in ecology, forestry, atmospheric science, soil science and biogeochemistry.

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668

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387989005

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9780387989006

Plot and Point of View in the Iliad

By: Robert J. Rabel

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Plot and Point of View in the Iliad

By: Robert J. Rabel

Argues that Homer, the poet of the Iliad, may be fully distinguished from the narrator of Homeric poetry

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272

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University of Michigan Press

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0472107682

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9780472107681

Studies in Early Egyptian Glass

By: Christine Lilyquist,Robert H. Brill,M. T. Wypyski

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Studies in Early Egyptian Glass

By: Christine Lilyquist,Robert H. Brill,M. T. Wypyski

Materials from the tomb of Tuthmosis III's three foreign wives are the starting point for studies exploring glassmaking in Egypt about 1800-1400 B.C.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870996835

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9780870996832

Middle English Dictionary

Plan and bibliography

By: Robert E. Lewis,Mary Jane Williams

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Middle English Dictionary

Plan and bibliography

By: Robert E. Lewis,Mary Jane Williams

The final installment of the most important modern reference work for Middle English studies

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188

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University of Michigan Press

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0472013106

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9780472013104

Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

Two Volumes Plus Integrated Content Website (Rockwood, Green, and Wilkins' Fractures)

By: Robert W. Bucholz

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Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

Two Volumes Plus Integrated Content Website (Rockwood, Green, and Wilkins' Fractures)

By: Robert W. Bucholz

In its thoroughly revised, updated Seventh Edition, Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults offers a complete print and multimedia package: the established "gold-standard" two-volume reference on fractures and access to an integrated content website. More than 80 of the world's foremost authorities provide comprehensive coverage of all bone and joint injuries, thoroughly discuss alternative methods for treating each injury, and present their own preferred methods. This edition has 33 new contributors and new chapters on principles of nerve injury and complex regional pain syndrome; psychological aspects of trauma; gunshot and wartime injuries; principles of mangled extremity management; amputations; limb salvage reconstruction; principles of post-traumatic infections; principles of nonunions; and principles of malunions.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1451161441

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Book's by Robert J. Bayley

Language as Cultural Practice

Language as Cultural Practice

Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change

Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change

Plot and Point of View in the Iliad

Plot and Point of View in the Iliad

Studies in Early Egyptian Glass

Studies in Early Egyptian Glass

Middle English Dictionary

Middle English Dictionary

Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

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