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Publication details [#50958]

Chun, Elaine W. 2009. Speaking like Asian immigrants: Intersections of accommodation and mocking at a U.S. high school. Pragmatics 19 (1) : 17–38.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study explores how fluent English-speaking Korean and Filipino American high school students in Texas deploy language to manage the relationship between immigrant and non-immigrant Asian American youth identities, both accommodating towards and mocking Asian immigrant speech. These seemingly divergent practices appear to display linguistic overlap.