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This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the research to date on linguistic intermarriage in a migration context. It shows that language proficiency and language choice are key to analysing how language and power are negotiated within the family. By looking at communication in the family as invisible language work, the author argues there is a gendered division of domestic labour which affects family language policy (FLP) and practice. This division is reflected in the research, through the focus on the undertaking and maintenance of FLP as a component of motherhood. The chapter concludes by reviewing a growing body of research into fatherhood and bilingual childrearing. |
