!Vamos a Da’ Las! (Let’s Go to Dallas!): Transborder Geographies of Illegality in Mexican Speech Play
Thursday, March 3, 2011
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Lindley Hall 102
This lecture explores a variety of common sociolinguistic practices –ranging from humorous verbal put-ons to the virtuosic use of the Spanish décima in poetic flyting– as interactional means of self-making across the U.S.-Mexico border among undocumented Mexican immigrants from the Sierra Gorda region of central Mexico.
Immigration and trans-border relations are among the most pressing concerns in the political economy of both countries. Dr. Chávez’s lecture, which offers a perspective on the immigration experience and the transnational border from the vantage point of the immigrants’ own forms of expression, will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members in a wide range departments.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Lindley Hall 102
This lecture explores a variety of common sociolinguistic practices –ranging from humorous verbal put-ons to the virtuosic use of the Spanish décima in poetic flyting– as interactional means of self-making across the U.S.-Mexico border among undocumented Mexican immigrants from the Sierra Gorda region of central Mexico.
Immigration and trans-border relations are among the most pressing concerns in the political economy of both countries. Dr. Chávez’s lecture, which offers a perspective on the immigration experience and the transnational border from the vantage point of the immigrants’ own forms of expression, will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members in a wide range departments.
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