Language and belonging: local categories and practices in a guatemalan highland community
Auteur :
Vallentin, Rita
Éditeur :
Peter Lang AG
ISBN :
9783631735602
Date de publication :
20 sept. 2019
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Poids :
479 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
The book deals with the relationship between speakers' sense of belonging and their language use by examining their interactions in a Guatemalan community. The analysis shows that belonging is tied to the use of social, spatial and temporal categories, the relations between them, and collectively shared linguistic practices.