ISBN: 0816547866 9780816547869

Category: Social Science / General

Page count: 508

The Hills confront far more than what is 'sayable' in terms of Mexicano grammar; they deal with what is actually said, with the relationship between Spanish and Mexicano as resources in the community's linguistic repertoire. . . . One of the major studies of language contact produced within the past forty years.—<i>Language</i><br> <br> "The genius of this work is the integration of the linguistic analysis with the cultural and political analysis."—<i>Latin American Anthropology Review</i>