Salsa I : proceedings of the first annual Symposium about Language and Society-Austin / editors, Robin Queen, Rusty Barrett.

Author/creator Symposium about Language and Society, Austin
Other author Queen, Robin.
Other author Barrett, Rusty.
Format Book
Publication InfoAustin, Texas : Univ. of Texas, Dept. of Linguistics, 1993.
Descriptionvi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesTLF ; 33
Texas linguistic forum ; 33. ^A654364
Contents Is it really "No problemo"? Junk Spanish and Anglo racism / Jane H. Hill -- Genre and competence in UFO discourse / Susan Lepselter -- Soft fictions : children, narrative events and identity / Randal K. Tillery -- Language in evidence : the pragmatics of tanslation [sic] in the courtroom / Mary Bucholtz -- Why we need descriptive studies : phonological variables in Hispanic English / Erik R. Thomas -- Problems with identifying and quantifying the directives in doctor-patient talk / Marcia H. Edwards -- "They speak more Caucasian" : generational differences in the speech of Japanese-Americans / Norma Catalina Mendoza-Denton ; Melissa Iwai -- Individual identity and the political economy of language : the case of Anglophone wives in Tunisia / Keith Walters -- Diglossia in flux : language and ethnicity in Ukraine / Laada Bilaniuk -- On the social meaning of code choice in an Israeli city /Daniel Lefkowitz -- A defense of the proposition, "When a language dies, a culture dies" / Anthony C. Woodbury -- On the possibility of an English-derived Gold Coast pidgin in use during the slave trade / Michael Aceto -- English/Spanish bilingualism : the other side of the coin / Florencia Cortés-Conde -- Sex differences in minority language retention by Hispanic children in northern New Mexico / Eliverio Chavéz -- Structure exaggeration in language death / Susan G. Guion -- Grammatical roles and participant introductions in native English and second language discourse / Lorraine E. Kumpf -- Variation in Japanese honorific use and the negotiation of social relationships / Cynthia Dickel Dunn -- Aggravated corrections as disagreement in casual Greek conversations / Cristina Kakavá -- Pointed lips, thumbs up, and cheek puffs : some emblematic gestures in social interactions and ethnographic context / Joel Sherzer -- Kinship as verbal art : a Western Apache case / David Samuels -- Gender and verbal art : the case of the Akan / Akosua Anyidoho -- Mayan conversation as interaction / Jill Brody -- Speech style, grammatical distinction, and the reproduction of social difference in Highland Nepal / Calla Jacobson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Other titleProceedings of the first annual Symposium about Language and Society-Austin.

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