"Hy Leer Dit Nie Hier Nie" ('He Doesn't Learn It Here'): Talking about Children's Swearing in Extended Families in Multilingual South Africa

Autor/in	Coetzee, Frieda
Titel	"Hy Leer Dit Nie Hier Nie" ('He Doesn't Learn It Here'): Talking about Children's Swearing in Extended Families in Multilingual South Africa
Quelle	In: International Journal of Multilingualism, 15 (2018) 3, S.291-305 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1479-0718
DOI	10.1080/14790718.2018.1477291
Schlagwörter	Multilingualism; Socialization; Family Relationship; Language Usage; Foreign Countries; Case Studies; Males; Mothers; Early Parenthood; Poverty; Discourse Analysis; Indo European Languages; Correlation; Second Language Learning; Language Attitudes; Ethnography; English (Second Language); African Languages; Parent Child Relationship; Code Switching (Language); Moral Values; Child Rearing; South Africa (Cape Town) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Sprachgebrauch; Ausland; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Mother; Mutter; Armut; Diskursanalyse; Indoeuropäisch; Korrelation; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachverhalten; Ethnografie; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Kindererziehung
Abstract	This paper explores family language policy as a conceptual framework for exploring the ideologies around swearing and children in a multilingual family environment. The case study revolves around two young male children born to adolescent mothers living in socio-economically marginalised neighbourhoods in Cape Town, South Africa. Whilst family language policy research has traditionally investigated children's language learning in multilingual family contexts, this paper focuses on practices and discourses around swearing. The children are raised in a particular type of family: their young parents do not live together, but with their respective extended families. Drawing on recordings of interactions and casual conversations, the paper shows that swearing is an important topic for adults within talk around children's language. General questions around family language policy uncover the participants' association of children's use of Afrikaans with swearing. Moreover, the interpretation of empirical data brings to the fore the contradictions between language socialisation practices and expressed family language policies around children's acquisition of swearwords. Furthermore, the paper highlights how beliefs around children and swearing are not expressed within the nuclear family as a social unit, but rather along extended family lines--thereby emphasising the processes of 'family making'. (As Provided).
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