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This volume - along with its companion Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy in the City's Neighborhoods - fills an important gap in research on Chicago and, more generally, on language use in globalized metropolitan areas. Often cited as a quintessential American city, Chicago is, and always has been, a city of immigrants. It is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the United States and home to one of the largest and most diverse Latino communities. Although language is unquestionably central to social identity, and Chicago has been well studied by scholars interested in ethnicity, until now no one has focused - as do the contributors to these volumes - on the related issues of language and ethnicity.Latino Language and Literacy in Ethnolinguistic Chicago includes:\*ethnographic studies based in home settings that focus on ways of speaking and literacy practices;\*studies that explore oral language use and literacy practices in school contexts; and\*studies based in community spaces in various neighborhoods.It offers a rich set of portraits emphasizing language use as centrally related to ethnic, class, or gender identities. As such, it is relevant for anthrop

Who reads Latino language and literacy in ethnolinguistic Chicago?

Author

Marcia Farr

Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Incorporated

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805843484

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Linguistics, Language Learning