Young Swedish-Estonian Returnees to Estonia: Reflections on Family Language Policy and a Multilingual Upbringing

Verschik, Anna; Doyle, Colm

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52993-6_7

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“…FLP is called home language planning in the home environment, which may in some cases be subconscious or externally hidden (see also Curdt-Christiansen 2009, King et al 2008, Soler and Zabrodskaja 2017, Verschik and Doyle 2017. In general, there is currently a trend in the field of FLP research where a greater emphasis is put on the general background of families and the interplay between decisions made in the family and the expectations of society (see e.g.…”

Section: The Peculiarity Of Family Language Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, it is important to note that while some FLP researchers (e.g. Fogle and King 2013, Kopeliovitch 2013, Palviainen and Boyd 2013, Verschik and Doyle 2017, Wilson 2019 have approached FLP through the cognition prism of a child or an adolescent, FLP research has so far mostly focused only on the endeavours and desires of adults (Schwartz 2010, Wilson 2020. To date, little research has been done on bilingual or multilingual school-age adolescents whose sociolinguistic environment reduces the use of a heritage language in connection with enrolment in a general education school (Rothman 2009).…”

Section: The Peculiarity Of Family Language Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, the language of origin may be treated with respect while not being used (ibid.). This tendency where ethnolinguistic boundaries do not always coincide is indeed striking in Ukraine (Verschik 2010). It has been noted that, in connection with the language policy of the former Soviet regime, a significant gap was created in Ukraine between ethnocultural identity and the actual language practice, which subsequent political events in Ukraine have only exacerbated even further (Kulyk 2016).…”

Section: Relationship Between the Educational Environment And Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Issues of the Language Policy of Families With Ukrainian Origin in the Estonian Educational Space

Küün¹

2022

Trames. Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences

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The article addresses the family language policies of multilingual families (FLPs) with Ukrainian roots, describing, among others, the language practices of families in different areas. The analysis of the study is based on semi-structured interviews with newly arrived Ukrainian immigrants living in Tallinn. The language ideologies of families in relation to the choice of languages of education are examined. The secondary objective is to find the reasons why some families manage to maintain their national language and culture and others do not. The article shows that the desire to integrate into Estonian society has influenced the choice of language of instruction of the school among newly arrived immigrant parents, whereas, depending on different cases, the choice was both Estonian and Russian-language school. The article also shows the language management of parents of the studied families implemented with a view to maintaining their language of origin, among which, for example, participation in the Sunday school for the study of Ukrainian language and culture is also in focus alongside the language of instruction in a general education school.

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Section: The Peculiarity Of Family Language Policymentioning

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Section: The Peculiarity Of Family Language Policymentioning

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Section: Relationship Between the Educational Environment And Identitymentioning

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Issues of the Language Policy of Families With Ukrainian Origin in the Estonian Educational Space

Küün¹

2022

Trames. Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences

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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

PET

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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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Šeimos kalbų politikos ir ankstyvosios dvikalbystės sankirta: atvejo analizė

Verschik,

Argus

2024

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The article discusses family language policy in a family of ethnic Russians in Estonia where the father speaks Russian, and the mother speaks Estonian. This is the case of internalization of Estonian among ethnic Russians, a novel phenomenon in the post-Soviet countries. The data come from family conversations (6 h) and the semi-structured interview with the parents (1.5 h). There are discrepancies between the declared ideologies, management, and practices. The declared policy is OPOL and, as the father rendered it, purism because of the concern that the children will be confused otherwise. During the interview the father switched between Estonian, Russian, and English. In family conversations the mother’s speech (539 turns, of which 50 % are directed to the child) contained code-switching (7% in Russian and 8% switches within one turn in speech directed to the child). The parents claimed to speak Russian to each other, yet the mother occasionally switched to Estonian while talking to the father. In general, both family conversations and the interview proved to be linguistically more diverse than expected.

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Young Swedish-Estonian Returnees to Estonia: Reflections on Family Language Policy and a Multilingual Upbringing

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Issues of the Language Policy of Families With Ukrainian Origin in the Estonian Educational Space

Issues of the Language Policy of Families With Ukrainian Origin in the Estonian Educational Space

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

Šeimos kalbų politikos ir ankstyvosios dvikalbystės sankirta: atvejo analizė

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