Language and Belonging : Local Categories and Practices in a Guatemalan Highland Community

In this book, the author introduces belonging from a sociolinguistic perspective as a concept that is accomplished in interaction. Belonging can be expressed linguistically in social, spatial and temporal categories - indexing rootedness, groupness and cohesion. It can also be captured through share...

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Main Author: Vallentin, Rita (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2019
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