"Combining bilingualism, gender studies, and conversation analysis, this book explores the storytelling practices and language choices of several married heterosexual Spanish-English bilingual couples, all residing in Texas but each representing different geographic and cultural backgrounds. It demonstrates how the private language decisions of bilingual couples enable them to negotiate a place in the larger culture, shape the future of bilingualism, and establish a couple identity through shared linguistic and cultural ...
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"Combining bilingualism, gender studies, and conversation analysis, this book explores the storytelling practices and language choices of several married heterosexual Spanish-English bilingual couples, all residing in Texas but each representing different geographic and cultural backgrounds. It demonstrates how the private language decisions of bilingual couples enable them to negotiate a place in the larger culture, shape the future of bilingualism, and establish a couple identity through shared linguistic and cultural habits"--
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