Exploring language choice and identity construction in ‘in-between’ sites
| Autor: | Ken Cruickshank, Antonia Rubino |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language First language Native-language instruction 05 social sciences Self-concept Ethnic group 050301 education Identity (social science) Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Language and Linguistics 0602 languages and literature Mainstream Multilingualism Sociology 0503 education Sociolinguistics |
| Zdroj: | Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. 39:255-271 |
| ISSN: | 1833-7139 0155-0640 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/aral.39.3.03rub |
| Popis: | Australian research on immigrant languages has paid little attention to interactional approaches to language alternation as identity construction, and sites other than the family and the mainstream school. We argue for the need of studies that take into account a wider range of sites, in particular ‘community’ sites, and adopt fine-grained approaches through micro-level data, to provide more linguistic evidence and support for findings identified using other strategies. Drawing on micro-sociolinguistic research conducted in Australia in the ethnic media and the community languages schools, we show how in these ‘in-between’ sites (Tsolidis & Kostogriz, 2008) language choice is often a matter of negotiation, and the issues of language use and identity tend to be foregrounded. We also address the questions of why these sites have been less researched and the value of findings from them in terms of language and identity research in multilingual contexts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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