A Bourdieusian perspective on child agency in family language policy

Revis, Melanie

doi:10.1080/13670050.2016.1239691

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“…Results of studies on children's agency in FLP often show that children may steer the family towards the dominant language and often become mediators socialising parents into the dominant culture (Guo 2014;Revis 2016). The case study presented in this article suggests that children in transnational families may also take on a different role and resist the pressure from the dominant culture and become guardians of the heritage language.…”

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“…The discussion between Kasia and her father illustrates how the migration situation may change the balance of power within a family. Sociolinguistic studies show that in transnational contexts the traditional intrafamilial power relations may shift due to the children's quicker acquisition of dominant social, cultural and linguistic skills (Revis 2016), which may result, much like in Kasia's case, in children's achieving a more knowledgeable and authoritative position in the family and often also becoming language brokers for their parents (Antonini 2016;Morales and Hanson 2005). As illustrated in the interview excerpts, the powerful positioning is locally and situationally constructed in interactions, herein the concrete interview encounter.…”

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‘Ikke snakke norsk?’ – Transnational adolescents and negotiations of family language policy explored through family interview

Obojska

2019

Multilingua

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Multilingual families and their language policies have attracted considerable attention in recent sociolinguistic work. Adding to this line of research, this article focuses on a case study of a transnational Polish family living in Norway and investigates the role adolescent children may play in the formation of family language policies. To this end the article analyses stances towards language practices at home taken in an interaction between the father and one of the adolescent daughters of the family. The article argues that the perspectives of adolescent children may be of crucial importance for the establishment of family language policies and thus deserve scholarly attention. Methodologically, the article draws attention to family interviews as a useful tool in generating sociolinguistic data for studies of Family Language Policies and advocates an interactional approach to interview data.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Ikke snakke norsk?’ – Transnational adolescents and negotiations of family language policy explored through family interview

Obojska

2019

Multilingua

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“…where the child-agent partakes in the meaning-making of home language socialization (see also Revis 2016).…”

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Reported parent-teacher dialogues on child language learning: voicing agency in interview narratives

Bubikova-Moan

2017

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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This study investigates parent-teacher dialogues on child language learning as constructed in 19 interviews with migrant parents of Polish ethnolinguistic background, resettled in Norway and caring for young preschoolers and school-goers. Targeting reported speech as a linguistic resource for enacting agency in discourse, the focal interest is in tracing how the interviewed parents draw on this resource to enact and negotiate their agency vis-à-vis their children's educators. The analysis reveals that the parents use reported speech as a strategic discursive tool to variably claim their agency across time and space. While L2 emerges as the most prominent theme of the dialogues, the participants also display a sense of ownership of the meaning-making processes involved in their children's L1 development. Through constructions of concerted bilingual home-pre/school support, the parents thus propel their capacity to imagine their children's membership in the host and home language communities to the fore.

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“…future job prospects) or emotional reasons to use the heritage language in the home. Similarly, Revis (2016) investigation of the family language policies of Ethiopian and Colombian families with refugee background in New Zealand taps into metalinguistic commentaries that express connections between national identity and language use. Particularly relevant for this study is the case of Lydia, a six-year-old daughter of an Ethiopian family.…”

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Talking multilingual families into being: language practices and ideologies of a Brazilian-Norwegian family in Norway

Gomes

2020

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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This article sets out to explore the relationships between parental language ideologies, and language use and negotiation in parent-child interaction. The primary dataset is composed of around 10 h of audio recordings of everyday interactions of family members (i.e. a Brazilian mother, a Norwegian father, and a 3-year old Norwegian born daughter) during a three-year ethnographically-oriented project undertaken in Norway. A discourse analytical approach with a focus on instances of language negotiation led to the identification of a set of seven parental discourse strategies in the corpus: addressee-bound, code-bound, code rebuttal, filling gaps, rephrase, say 'x', and 'what is-' frame. Results indicate that, contrary to what parents might expect, drawing on discourse strategies that make explicit references to language names might hinder the active use of the child's full linguistic repertoire. Conversely, discourse strategies that only implicitly serve as requests to use a given language can foster continuous multilingual language use. Finally, I suggest that strategies that make explicit references to named languages could be linked to a one-person-one-language-one-nation ideology, and I demonstrate how these strategies help us understand the ways family members navigate their complex national affiliations and talk their multilingual selves into being.

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A Bourdieusian perspective on child agency in family language policy

Cited by 51 publications

References 28 publications

‘Ikke snakke norsk?’ – Transnational adolescents and negotiations of family language policy explored through family interview

‘Ikke snakke norsk?’ – Transnational adolescents and negotiations of family language policy explored through family interview

Reported parent-teacher dialogues on child language learning: voicing agency in interview narratives

Talking multilingual families into being: language practices and ideologies of a Brazilian-Norwegian family in Norway

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