To Make the Root Stronger: Language Policies and Experiences of Successful Multilingual Intermarried Families with Adolescent Children in Tallinn

Doyle, Colm

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“…Fogle and King (2013) showed, for example, that adolescent girls of Russian and Hispanic origins opposed the use of majority language at home. Similarly, adolescents in (Doyle 2013) study on multilingual families in Estonia were found to take responsibility for their continued acquisition and development of the non-majority language.…”

Section: Family Language Policy As a Conflictmentioning

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“…In response to this call, this article proposes family interviews as a method useful in accessing language ideologies and metalinguistic awareness of both parents and adolescent children. Previously in sociolinguistic work interested in FLP, interviews with members of more than one generation were used by (Bernal Lorenzo 2017;Doyle 2013), however, the data provided by the parents and their children were treated as separate accounts. In this article, I argue for a more interactional approach to interview data, especially the ones produced in a family setting.…”

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

Obojska

2019

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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: Family Language Policy As a Conflictmentioning

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Section: Children Family Language Policy and Stance In Interviewsmentioning

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

Obojska

2019

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“…Similarly to the present author's previous studies (Doyle 2013, Verschik, Doyle 2017, this study employs a micro-sociolinguistic, qualitative approach with the semi-structured interview as its data-gathering tool. This type of research assists a researcher in arriving at a more nuanced picture of a sociolinguistic phenomenon by shining a light on smaller communities of practices that are overlooked by macro-research and also seeks to uncover the 'why' to a speaker's speech acts (Verschik, Doyle 2017; see Verschik 2005 for a discussion).…”

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“…The author believes that the present paper is a worthwhile and worthy contribution to the literature on language management in 2 Worldwide, according to Ethnologue, there are some 1.14 million speakers of Estonian, and 265 million speakers of Russian (Simons, Fennig 2018). the family for two reasons: firstly, the paper focuses on the actions and efforts of minority-language fathers -much research centres either mothers or children; and secondly, the context of Tallinn is a non-English-language, post-Soviet space and allows the researcher to investigate how language policy at the micro-level 'is conceptualized in situations of perceived fragility' of a 'small' national language, such as Estonian (Verschik, Doyle 2017; see Kalmus 2003, Ehala, Niglas 2006, Doyle 2013, and Pawłusz 2017.…”

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‘She’s the big dog who knows’ – power and the father’s role in minority language transmission in four transnational families in Tallinn

Doyle

2018

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This paper presents the family language policies of four Estonian-non-Estonian bilingual, transnational families, with focus paid to the language management efforts of the fathers and the challenges they faced, including child agency and imbalances of power. The findings indicate that minority-language fathers also engage in 'language work' (Okita 2002), and demonstrated that the fathers' language management efforts were constrained and determined by factors such as the level of competence the men's spouse has in his L1, child agency, and access to a same languageculture community as a supportive resource.

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“…Intressant i min undersökning är att samtliga informanter ansåg att norskan och engelskan var viktigare språk för dem än finskan. Alla utom en var dock positiva till tanken att tala finska med sina barn (jfr Doyle, 2013;Rydenvald, 2014). Den informant som inte kunde tänka sig det har svaga språkfärdigheter i finska.…”

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Språkanvändning och språkval bland finsk-norska ungdomar i Osloområdet

Lieri

2017

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I artikeln studeras vilket språk (finska eller norska) de sex utvalda ungdomarna i åldern 17-22 år använder i tre olika domäner (hemdomänen, fritidsdomänen och massmediebruket) och hur språkvalet har förändrats under de åtta åren som var mellan de två olika undersökningstillfällena. Det belyses också faktorer som kan tänkas påverka dessa ungdomars språkval. Materialet består av intervjuer och enkät. Studiens ansats är sociolingvistisk.Resultaten i denna undersökning bevisar norskans dominerande ställning i de undersökta ungdomarnas språkval. Undantag är hemdomänen där informanterna också talar finska. Det har skett en del förändringar i språkvalet, först och främst i hemdomänen. Språkvalet förklaras bäst av faktorerna socialt nätverk och förändring av språklig identitet. Resultaten visar vidare att några ungdomar är mer aktivt tvåspråkiga än de andra.Nyckelord: domän, finska, norska, språkval, tvåspråkighet BAKGRUND OCH SYFTE MED STUDIENFinländare utgör en liten minoritet i Norge trots att den finska invandringen till landet har pågått i flera hundra år (Niemi, 2010). Den nyare finska invandringen till Norge kan anses ha börjat på 70-talet. Då flyttade unga, ogifta kvinnor från de nordligaste delarna av Finland till Nordnorge där de fick arbete inom fiskindustrin. Många finskor stannande där efter att ha gift sig med norrmän (Anttonen, 2008). Finsk arbetskraft var också efterfrågad på skeppsvarv, oljeplattformar och inom byggnadsbranchen i södra Norge. Sedan mitten av 1990-talet har flyttningen till Norge kontinuerligt ökat. Förklaringen till detta är att arbetsmarknadssituationen har varit gynnsammare i Norge än i Finland. Rekordåret 1998 flyttade över 800 nya finländ-are till Norge och t.ex. antalet finska läkare och sjukskötare på norska sjukhus närapå för-dubblades på kort tid. Årligen flyttar ca 400 finländare till Norge och majoriteten av dem är välutbildade (Anttonen, 2008;Lindgren, Eskeland & Norman, 2003). Enligt officiella uppgifter publicerade av Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB) bodde det per 1.1.2016 totalt 6 362 finska medborgare i Norge (60 % kvinnor respektive 40 % män). Av dessa bodde 2 070 (32,5 %) i Oslo och Akershus (Stor-Osloområdet), 1 369 (21,5 %) i Nordnorge (Finnmark och Troms) och 2 923 (46 %) spridda över andra delar av landet. Majoriten av de finländare som idag bor i Norge är i den bästa arbetsföra åldern, mellan 20-66 år (77 %).

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To Make the Root Stronger: Language Policies and Experiences of Successful Multilingual Intermarried Families with Adolescent Children in Tallinn

Cited by 19 publications

References 22 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

‘She’s the big dog who knows’ – power and the father’s role in minority language transmission in four transnational families in Tallinn

Språkanvändning och språkval bland finsk-norska ungdomar i Osloområdet

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