‘Quiere<i>koffie</i>?’ The multilingual familylect of transcultural families

Mensel, Luk Van

doi:10.1080/14790718.2018.1477096

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“…The excerpts given above have provided a snapshot of what looking at bilingual children's interactions while playing may yield. The focus on the children's language socialization patterns in their playing sheds light on the impact of their agency in shaping the ecology of family, on the one hand (King & Lanza, ; Van Mensel, ), and how the family members’ agency is shaped by family external factors, on the other (Curdt‐Christiansen, ; Mirvahedi, ; Mirvahedi & Macalister, ). The findings offer important insights into how English, Singapore's most favored societal language, finds its way into the private sphere of family through children.…”

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“…Contributing to the body of literature on the children's language socialization and their agentive roles in shaping FLP (Fogle & King, ; Gyogi, ; Kheirkhah, ; Kheirkhah & Cekaite, ), we seek to illustrate that the home cannot be necessarily considered a ‘safe space’ for the maintenance of ethnic languages in Singapore any longer. We rather, argue, that we need to re‐examine the different instances of language socialization taking place through various activities among family members (Wei, ; Wei & Hua, ) as well as the ‘porosity’ of the home domain with respect to forces from outside the family (Canagarajah, , p. 171; Van Mensel, , p. 238).…”

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Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay‐English bilingual family in Singapore

Mirvahedi

Cavallaro

2019

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This research applies language socialization theory within a family language policy framework to investigate how language shift is realized in daily activities within a Malay‐English bilingual family in Singapore. Applying Goffman's frame analysis to two excerpts of siblings’ play from ninety hours of recordings of family interactions, we illustrate how children as young as four and seven enact adult roles such as teacher and student within the frame of play. In creatively enacting these roles, identities and social relations, the children draw upon their knowledge of play‐external structures – with which they have experience from other (non‐play) situations. The children consequently use English – what is typical of educational settings in Singapore – to portray an image of a teacher and student within the frame of play.

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Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay‐English bilingual family in Singapore

Mirvahedi

Cavallaro

2019

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“…According to Blum-Kulka (1997: 258), bilingual socialization means both "bilingual practices in the process of socialization and socialization towards balanced bilingualism". In effect, language practices, for example language choice and shared multilingual family repertoires, may become a resource to claim membership and negotiate social identities within the family (Blum-Kulka 1997;Van Mensel 2018). Still, scholars have noted how the unequal distribution of language competences in multilingual families may, for example, subvert the asymmetrical power hierarchies within families, as children claim the role as language teachers or language experts over both parents, younger or older siblings (Blum-Kulka 1997; Kheirkhah and Cekaite 2017; Obojska 2019).…”

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“Quierojuksar en lajulaftenito” – Playfulness and metalinguistic awareness in translingual family interactions

Johnsen

2020

Multilingua

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This article explores playfulness and creativity in translingual family interactions. In particular, it focuses on how and to what ends adolescents mobilize multilingual resources in family interactions. It investigates the cases of two multilingual families with adolescent children (13–18 years old). The families have different linguistic backgrounds, but have in common that one of the parents have migrated from a Spanish-speaking Latin-American country to Northern-Norway, and that Spanish represents a linguistic resource and a heritage language in the families. The data consists of self-recorded family interactions (29 recordings, ca. 5 h.) and were collected over the course of one year. By analysing interactions where the adolescents employ Spanish features, the article offers insights into how adolescents negotiate the position of the heritage language Spanish in the family. A close, turn-by-turn analysis demonstrates that the adolescents in a creative and playful manner employ a multitude of linguistic resources to fulfil interactional achievements: Through metalinguistic talk and playful translingual practices, the adolescents challenge and negotiate identities and family roles, exert agencies, and demonstrate metalinguistic awareness and sociolinguistic control.

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“…Συνεπώς, η οικογενειακή γλωσσική πολιτική, που περιλαμβάνει και τη γλωσσική χρήση (Spolsky, 2004), είναι άμεσα συνυφασμένη με το πεδίο της κατάκτησης της δεύτερης γλώσσας (second language acquisition), καθώς διερευνά πεδία στα οποία αυτή πραγματοποιείται (Van Mensel, 2018). Η γλωσσική κοινωνικοποίηση των Αλβανών μεταναστών στην Ελλάδα τα τελευταία χρόνια έχει μελετηθεί σε μεγάλο βαθμό (π.χ.…”

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Η Γλωσσική Ανάπτυξη Δίγλωσσων Παιδιών Και Η Σχέση Της Με Την Οικογενειακή Γλωσσική Πολιτική: Έρευνα Σε Αλβανικές Οικογένειες Στην Περιοχή Της Φλώρινας

Maligkoudi

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2019

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Στη σύγχρονη ελληνική κοινωνία είναι συχνό το φαινόμενο των πολύγλωσσων οικογενειών εξαιτίας παραγόντων όπως μετακίνησης, μετανάστευσης, προσφυγιάς κ.λπ. Οι διεπιδράσεις σε πολύγλωσσες οικογένειες βρίσκονται στο σταυροδρόμι μεταξύ γλωσσικής πολιτικής και δίγλωσσης ανάπτυξης των παιδιών (Van Mensel, 2018) και για αυτό στη σύγχρονη βιβλιογραφία η οικογενειακή γλωσσική πολιτική (family language policy) έχει συνδεθεί στενά με το ερευνητικό πεδίο της κατάκτησης δεύτερης γλώσσας (second language acquisition), καθώς υπάρχει ανάγκη για αναθεώρηση της φύσης της γλωσσικής εκμάθησης μέσα σε έναν πολύγλωσσο κόσμο (Higgins, 2018). Το παρόν άρθρο διερευνά τις στάσεις και πρακτικές έξι οικογενειών (γονέων και παιδιών) που ζουν στη Φλώρινα και έχουν αλβανική καταγωγή, με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στις γλωσσικές πρακτικές, επιλογές και ιδεολογίες τους που φαίνεται ότι επηρεάζουν τη γλωσσική ανάπτυξη των παιδιών τους.

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‘Quierekoffie?’ The multilingual familylect of transcultural families

Cited by 37 publications

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Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay‐English bilingual family in Singapore

Siblings' play and language shift to English in a Malay‐English bilingual family in Singapore

“Quierojuksar en lajulaftenito” – Playfulness and metalinguistic awareness in translingual family interactions

Η Γλωσσική Ανάπτυξη Δίγλωσσων Παιδιών Και Η Σχέση Της Με Την Οικογενειακή Γλωσσική Πολιτική: Έρευνα Σε Αλβανικές Οικογένειες Στην Περιοχή Της Φλώρινας

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