'Arabic is the mother tongue of Islam': Religion and the reproduction of Arabic among second-generation British-Arab immigrants in Cardiff, UK
| Autor: | Mirona Moraru |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language 060101 anthropology History Communication First language media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration Islam 06 humanities and the arts Ancient history Semitic languages Language and Linguistics language.human_language Literacy Welsh Religious education Language contact language 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0601 history and archaeology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Multilingua. 38:313-334 |
| ISSN: | 1613-3684 0167-8507 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/multi-2017-0093 |
| Popis: | Born and educated in the UK, with Arab parents and Muslims, second-generation British-Arab immigrants in Cardiff find themselves at the core of a complex web of power relations which potentiates their production of multilingual practices. However, while Cardiff is officially bilingual, English being the dominant language and Welsh becoming increasingly valuable, linguistic practices with Arabic are usually rendered illegitimate. In spite of this, British-Arabs produce, reproduce, and negotiate linguistic practices with Arabic in Cardiff. The present article employs Pierre Bourdieu’s model of linguistic production and circulation to analyse the oral linguistic biographies of six second-generation British-Arabs in Cardiff in order to understand the conditions which enable the production of such practices in Cardiff in spite of their illegitimacy. The main argument is that Islam complements the central role occupied by the family in the reproduction of linguistic practices with Arabic in Cardiff; the relationship between the symbolic value ascribed to Qur’anic Arabic, the institutionalised provision of Arabic literacy, and mainstream education functions as a mechanism which reproduces the symbolic value of linguistic practices with Arabic on specific linguistic submarkets in Cardiff. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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