Transnational Experience, Aspiration and Family Language Policy

Autor/inn/en	Hua, Zhu; Wei, Li
Titel	Transnational Experience, Aspiration and Family Language Policy
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 37 (2016) 7, S.655-666 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2015.1127928
Schlagwörter	Multilingualism; Family Relationship; Language Usage; Bilingualism; Mobility; Migration; Sociolinguistics; Self Concept; Interpersonal Relationship; Second Language Learning; Ethnography; Asians; Foreign Countries; Social Structure; Language Maintenance; Language Skill Attrition; Chinese; English (Second Language); Parent Attitudes; Researchers; Grandparents; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Sprachgebrauch; Bilingualismus; Mobilität; Mobilitätsförderung; Soziolinguistik; Selbstkonzept; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Ethnografie; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Ausland; Sozialstruktur; Sprachpflege; Sprachverfall; China; Chinesen; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Elternverhalten; Researcher; Forscher; Großeltern; Großbritannien
Abstract	Transnational and multilingual families have become commonplace in the twenty-first century. Yet relatively few attempts have been made from applied and socio-linguistic perspectives to understand what is going on "within" such families; how their transnational and multilingual experiences impact on the family dynamics and their everyday life; how they cope with the new and ever-changing environment, and how they construct their identities and build social relations. In this article, we start from the premise that bilingualism and multilingualism mean different things to different generations and individuals within the same family. Additive Bilingualism, which is often celebrated for the positive benefits of adding a second language and culture without replacing or displacing the first, cannot be taken for granted as a common experience of the individuals in transnational families. Using data gathered from a sociolinguistic ethnography of three multilingual and transnational families from China in Britain, we discuss the experiences of different generations and individuals in dealing with bilingualism and multilingualism and how their experiences affect the way individual family members perceive social relations and social structures and construct and present their own identities. The key argument we wish to put forward is that more attention needs to be paid to the diverse experiences of the individuals and to the strategies they use to deal with the challenges of multilingualism, rather than the overall patterns of language maintenance and language shift. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01