Language in Immigrant America
- ISBN-10
- 1107058392
- ISBN-13
- 9781107058392
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 389
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-10-12
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Dominika Baran
Description
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Whose America?; 2. The alien specter then and now; 3. Hyphenated identity; 4. Foreign accents and immigrant Englishes; 5. Multilingual practices; 6. Immigrant children and language; 7. American becomings
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