About the Book
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Diversifying Family Language Policy, Christina Higgins (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA) and Lyn Wright (University of Memphis, USA)
Part I: Diverse Families
2. The Discursive Functions of Kinship Terms in Family Conversation, Lyn Wright (University of Memphis, USA)
3. Family Language Practices of a New Zealand Adoptive Family, Mohammed Nofal and Corinne A. Seals (Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
4. Making a Family: Language Ideologies and Practices in a Multilingual LGBTQ+ Family with Adopted Children, Kinga Kozminska (University of Oxford, UK and Birkbeck College, UK) and Zhu Hua (University of Birmingham, UK)
5. “When Kirogi Speaks Two Languages Perfectly”: Language Policies and Practices in Korean Diasporic Families, Hakyoon Lee (Georgia State University, USA)
6. The Formation of 'Ohana in Hawaiian Language Revitalization, Christina Higgins (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA)
Part II: Diverse Modalities
7. This is the Normal For Us: Managing the Mobile, Multilingual, Digital Family, Åsa Palviainen (University of Jyvåskylå, Finland)
8. Managing Language Shift through Multimodality: Somali Families in London, Sahra Abdullahi and Li Wei (University College London, UK)
9. Researching Family Language Policy in Multilingual Deaf-Hearing Families: Using Autoethnographic, Visual and Narrative Methods, Maartje De Meulder (University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands and Heriot-Watt University, UK), Annelies Kusters (Heriot-Watt University, UK) and Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University UK)
Part III: Diverse Speakers and Contexts
10. Family Language Policy and Language Maintenance among Turkmen-Persian Bilingual Families in Iran, Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi (University of Oslo, Norway), Mojtaba Rajabi (Gonbad Kavous University, Iran) and Khadijeh Aghaei (Gonbad Kavous University, Iran)
11. Family as a System: Values and Ideologies behind Family Language Policies of Diverse Arabic-Speaking Multilingual Families, Fatma F.S. Said (Zayed University, UAE and University of York, UK)
12. “I Want to Maximize the Benefit for My Children”: Marriage Migrant Families' Strategic Family Language Policy and Practice in South Korea, Bong-gi Sohn (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
13. Coloniality and Family Language Policy in an African Multilingual Family, Carolyn McKinney and Babalwayashe Molate (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
14. Beyond Success and Failure: Intergenerational Language Transmission from within Indigenous Families in Southern Chile, Marco Espinoza (University of Melbourne, Australia and University of Chile, Chile) and Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Melbourne, Australia)
15. Foundational Questions: Examining the Implications of Diverse Families, Modalities, Speakers, and Contexts for our Understandings of Family, Language, and Policy, Aurolyn Luykx (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
Index
About the Author :
Lyn Wright is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Memphis, USA.
Christina Higgins is Professor of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.
Review :
The authors in this volume should be congratulated for highlighting the research on family language policy in the modern era.
This volume is a welcome divergence from the Western, nuclear focus of most FLP research. The theoretical, methodological, and analytical insights help us understand more about the role of language in what it means to be a family in the twenty-first century.
In this important, engaging volume, Wright and Higgins expand the boundaries of family language policy (FLP) research. Their beautifully edited, expertly curated collection brings together original research which diversifies the types of families studied to date, expands the methods of FLP inquiry, and significantly broadens the languages and communities studied.
This edited volume contributes significantly to the thriving field of Family Language Policy (FLP) research. It enhances our understanding of the current FLP knowledge by expanding both the range of family types and the variety of family language repertoires. Drawing on a wealth of qualitative empirical studies from different geographic settings, the edited volume places FLP practices within the social dynamics of family life, also in hitherto underrepresented family types such as adoptive families, divorced and single parent families, LGBTQ families, and multi-sited transnational families. The book sheds new light on multilingualism which, situated in the complex web of social and political recognition, is reinterpreted through the lens of Family Language Policy in diversified communities.
