Speaking like Asian immigrants: Intersections of accommodation and mocking at a U.S. high school
@article{Chun2009SpeakingLA, title={Speaking like Asian immigrants: Intersections of accommodation and mocking at a U.S. high school}, author={E. W. Chun}, journal={Pragmatics}, year={2009}, volume={19}, pages={17-38} }
This article explores the relationship between immigrant and non-immigrant Asian American youth identities and the use of language to manage this relationship. Focusing on everyday interactions at a high school in Texas, the analysis examines how fluent English-speaking Korean and Filipino American students draw on linguistic resources associated with Asian immigrants, thus attending to generational identity, an important, though often oversimplified, social dimension in transnational contexts… Expand
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