“Maybe it was a shield, you know”: Exploring family language policy through the lens of perezhivanie
Polina Vorobeva,
Dmitri Leontjev
Abstract:The current study builds an argument for using Vygotskian perezhivanie as a theoretical perspective to explore the becoming and being of family language policy (FLP). We shift the focus from the three components constituting FLP – language beliefs or ideologies, language practices, and language planning or management – to the individual. Namely, we suggest focusing on the individuals who sift their explicit and implicit FLP decisions through their emotional lived experiences – perezhiviniya. The study draws on… Show more
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