Language Socialization and Language Shift

Garrett, Paul

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“…Rather than having a free hand in deciding which languages to learn, families' decisions are linked to the workings of power, material inequality, legal status and social acceptance (e.g. Kulick 1992;Canagarajah 2008;Garrett 2011). For example, hierarchies of linguistic resources and dominance contribute to a shift from Hakka to Mandarin among Hakka Chinese families in Malaysia (Wang 2017) or from Tamil to English among members of the global Tamil-speaking diaspora where precarious legal status and past inequalities related to caste and gender led to preference for English in family interactions (Canagarajah 2008).…”

Section: Multilingual Reality and Language Ideologiesmentioning

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The promise and resilience of multilingualism: language ideologies and practices of Polish-speaking migrants in the UK post the Brexit vote

Kozminska

Hua

2020

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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This article aims to examine how sociopolitical changes impact language ideology and linguistic practices within transnational multilingual families with a particular focus on families with ties to Poland in post-EUreferendum Britain. Drawing on the survey and ethnographic interview data collected as part of the ESRC-funded Family Language Policy project between 2017 and 2019, we found that the public attitude towards Polish and Polish speakers have changed significantly following the Brexit vote. While general lack of security and disappointment were reported by most families, the first-hand experiences of discrimination and violence were reported particularly among those in socioeconomically underprivileged positions. Despite these changes and differences, however, Polish speakers and families continue to hold onto the promise of multilingualism, carrying on with their language use and learning practices. These findings demonstrate the multilingual reality and resilience in family language policy and practices at the time of crisis and have wider implications for understanding influential factors underlying family language policy.

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Section: Multilingual Reality and Language Ideologiesmentioning

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The promise and resilience of multilingualism: language ideologies and practices of Polish-speaking migrants in the UK post the Brexit vote

Kozminska

Hua

2020

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…There is ample evidence that in a situation of language contact, languages are valued and used differently since they are ‘embedded in some of form of social hierarchy’ (Duranti, Ochs and Schieffelin : 487). As children and novices socialize to use language, through participation in activities involving code selection, they acquire the values associated with each code and the ‘locally preferred and dispreferred ways of dealing with them’ (Garrett : 516). These implicit local language ideologies and everyday interactional practices often give rise to and propel language shift.…”

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“…The interplay of macro‐level social factors such as urbanization, modernization, language and ethnic policies, demographic changes, power distribution in society, and globalization catalyzed the shift. Like elsewhere, this language shift was ‘rooted in relations of inequality between social groups’ (Garrett : 532); in urban areas, Kazakh became associated with lower status and backwardness, while Russian became perceived as the intrinsically superior language, linked to upward social mobility and progress.…”

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Early language socialization and language shift: Kazakh as Baby Talk

Smagulova

2014

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This paper draws attention to the key role of a caregiver's bilingual language practices in the process of language shift. It argues that certain multilingual practices actually discourage children's multilingualism and devalue the language at the same time as they provide preverbal children with direct input. The analysis is based on data collected in Russophone urban families of ethnic Kazakhs. Drawing from work on registers and footing, the paper demonstrates that in these families the Kazakh language, while quantitatively prevailing in caregiver's speech, systematically co-occurs with Baby Talk -a specific register directed to infants and toddlers in their preverbal stage. The metapragmatic typification of talking Kazakh to non-agentive objects-of-minding, and talking Russian to autonomous social agents, suggests that language practices envision expert members of the local community as Russian speaking. This ideology sustains the ongoing language shift to Russian despite families' aspiration to raise Kazakh-Russian bilingual children.

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“…In the section on socialization strategies, Amy Paugh () details the importance of local theories of child rearing in shaping language socialization and their impact on language shift in Dominica, West Indies. Paul Garrett () expands on this intersection of language socialization and language shift in the section on language and culture contact. He further addresses the topic of language ideologies to articulate how inequality, power, and linguistic difference converge on socialization into patterns of use or nonuse of marginalized language varieties.…”

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Linguistic Anthropology in 2012: Language Matter(s)

Black¹

2013

American Anthropologist

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In this article, I discuss the accomplishments of scholars of language and culture in 2012 and the questions raised by those accomplishments. I review matters of language—expansions and refinements of existing research topics, including linguistic relativity, language socialization, sociolinguistic variation, and language ideologies. I then consider a trend of research on topics of embodiment, materiality, and the senses, discussing the matter (in the physics sense) of language. I then use the term engagement to comment on developments in research on language endangerment, language circulation and shift, language and health, language and education, and language and social justice. This is rooted in the notion that language makes a difference (or matters) in cultural practice. I conclude with a brief discussion of the ontology of language, the epistemology of linguistic anthropology, and the roles of scholars of language and culture in anthropology as a whole.

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Language Socialization and Language Shift

Cited by 41 publications

References 26 publications

The promise and resilience of multilingualism: language ideologies and practices of Polish-speaking migrants in the UK post the Brexit vote

The promise and resilience of multilingualism: language ideologies and practices of Polish-speaking migrants in the UK post the Brexit vote

Early language socialization and language shift: Kazakh as Baby Talk

Linguistic Anthropology in 2012: Language Matter(s)

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