'Our Cat Has the Power': The Polysemy of a Third Language in Maintaining the Power/Solidarity Equilibrium in Family Interactions

Autor/in	Smith-Christmas, Cassie
Titel	'Our Cat Has the Power': The Polysemy of a Third Language in Maintaining the Power/Solidarity Equilibrium in Family Interactions
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 42 (2021) 8, S.716-731 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Smith-Christmas, Cassie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2021.1877720
Schlagwörter	Family Relationship; Multilingualism; Language Usage; Polish; Parent Child Relationship; Daughters; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Case Studies; Irish; Language Minorities; Power Structure; Language Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Cooperative Learning; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Sprachgebrauch; Polnisch; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Daughter; Tochter; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Irisch; Sprachminderheit; Sprachverhalten; Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Kooperatives Lernen; Irland
Abstract	This article examines how power and solidarity in family relations are negotiated along linguistic lines, and in particular, the role of a third language in this negotiation process. It takes as its case study a transnational family in Ireland who practise a strongly pro-Polish FLP and where the parents are seen as authorities in Polish and their daughters are seen as authorities in English, the dominant societal language. The paper takes a microinteractional approach to analysing excerpts where family members engage in language-learning activities using Irish, the national autochthonous minority language. The paper demonstrates how in many ways, Irish operates as a neutral, third space for family members to negotiate power/solidarity alignments, and thus contributes to the family's maintenance of the power/solidarity equilibrium. The paper also demonstrates the polysemy inherent in how these negotiations play out at an interactional level, especially vis-à-vis the family's pro-Polish FLP, as well as the polysemy of Irish-as-a-language within the scope of the family's interactions as a whole. (As Provided).
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