Multilingualism from a Lifespan Perspective: Case Studies from a Language Workshop for Spanish Seniors in Saint-Denis, France

Autor/in	Divita, David
Titel	Multilingualism from a Lifespan Perspective: Case Studies from a Language Workshop for Spanish Seniors in Saint-Denis, France
Quelle	In: International Journal of Multilingualism, 11 (2014) 1, S.1-22 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1479-0718
DOI	10.1080/14790718.2013.789030
Schlagwörter	Multilingualism; Foreign Countries; Older Adults; Phenomenology; Applied Linguistics; Language Research; Literacy Education; Discourse Analysis; Metalinguistics; Spanish; French; Language Attitudes; Case Studies; Migration; Biographies; Interpersonal Communication; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Ausland; Älterer Erwachsener; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Linguistics; Linguistik; Angewandte Linguistik; Sprachforschung; Diskursanalyse; Metalanguage; Metasprache; Spanisch; Französisch; Sprachverhalten; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Frankreich
Abstract	In socio- and applied linguistic research, age tends to be accounted for as fixed, biographical information, and individuals in later life have rarely been considered more than marginally. In this paper, I attempt to address this oversight by presenting data from multilingual subjects over the age of 65 as they take part in a language and literacy course for senior citizens. I account for their age not as a fixed category or an index of deterioration, but as a reflection of ongoing processes of personal, social and historical dimensions that can be measured in terms of the lifespan, a concept prevalent in the field of social gerontology. Keeping in mind the core elements of what I propose as a lifespan "perspective"--timescales, life events, language ideologies and linguistic repertoires--I conduct discourse analysis on their metalinguistic conversations to illuminate the subjective and phenomenological factors that have shaped--and that continue to shape--their linguistic repertoires and the ideologies that inform the ways in which they make use of them. (As Provided).
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