ISBN:
9781032328775
,
9781032328782
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 147 Seiten
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in linguistic anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Robinson, Heather M. Language, diaspora, and home
DDC:
306.44086/912
Keywords:
Language maintenance
;
Anthropological linguistics
;
Women immigrants Language
;
Heritage language speakers
;
Immigrants Language
;
Women Language
Abstract:
"This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gatekeepers of family languages toward creating a sense of "home." The volume features an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on work from narrative, storytelling, literary studies, and linguistic anthropology, and interviews from multiple generations of immigrant families, to reflect on the ways in these families foster a sense of home and maintain connections to their homelands through language. Robinson showcases the voices of a diverse range of families to examine the choices women in immigrant families make between the use of family languages, dominant community languages, or a mix of the two. The volume enhances our understanding of the ways in which immigrants navigate the linguistic landscapes of home and community amidst migration and diaspora. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, language and gender, and language and migration"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Language, diaspora, home -- Basement methodologies -- Language in motion: mothers, children, and linguistic circulation -- "Mending that wound": creating linguistic futures in a diasporic space -- Listen to your mother: home, migration, and language -- "Particularized worlds": translingual writing as borderland space -- "Talk 'bout battle fuh language!": disidentification and memory in the poetry of Esther Phillips -- A flat white and a banh mi: gender, language, and third spaces in the suburban city -- Island homes.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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