Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-176) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Translating frames -- Landscapes of childhood -- Home work -- Public para-phrasing -- Transculturations -- Transformations -- Translating childhoods.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, explores the "work" children perform as language and culture brokers. Children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. From ethnographic data and research, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators and considers how sociocultural learning and dev.
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Title
Translating childhoods.
International Standard Book Number
9780813545226
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Children of immigrants-- Language.
Immigrants-- Language.
Translating and interpreting.
Children of immigrants-- Language.
EDUCATION-- Reference.
Einwanderer
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Abuse-- Child Abuse.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Adoption & Fostering.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Parenting-- General.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Parenting-- Parent & Adult Child.