Diversifying Family Language Policy

"An increasingly important field of research within multilingualism and sociolinguistics, Family Language Policy (FLP) investigates the explicit and overt planning of language use within the home and among family members. However the diverse range of different family units and contexts around the globe necessitates a similarly diverse range of research perspectives which are not yet represented within the field. Tackling this problem head on, this volume expands the scope of families in FLP research. Bringing together contributors and case studies from every continent, this essential reference broadens lines of inquiry by investigating language practices and ideologies in previously under-researched families. Seeking to better reflect contemporary influences on FLP processes, chapters use innovative methodologies, including digital ethnographies and autoethnography, to explore diverse family configurations (adoptive, LGBTQ+, and single parent), modalities (digital communication and signed languages), and speakers and contexts (adult learners, Indigenous contexts, and new speakers). Bringing to light the dynamic, fluid nature of family and kinship as well as the important role that multilingualism plays in family members' negotiation of power, agency, and identity construction, Diversifying Family Language Policy is a state-of-the-art reference to contemporary theoretical, methodological and ethical advances in the field of family language policy"--

"An increasingly important field of research within multilingualism and sociolinguistics, Family Language Policy (FLP) investigates the explicit and overt planning of language use within the home and among family members. However the diverse range of different family units and contexts around the globe necessitates a similarly diverse range of research perspectives which are not yet represented within the field. Tackling this problem head on, this volume expands the scope of families in FLP research. Bringing together contributors and case studies from every continent, this essential reference broadens lines of inquiry by investigating language practices and ideologies in previously under-researched families. Seeking to better reflect contemporary influences on FLP processes, chapters use innovative methodologies, including digital ethnographies and autoethnography, to explore diverse family configurations (adoptive, LGBTQ+, and single parent), modalities (digital communication and signed languages), and speakers and contexts (adult learners, Indigenous contexts, and new speakers). Bringing to light the dynamic, fluid nature of family and kinship as well as the important role that multilingualism plays in family members' negotiation of power, agency, and identity construction, Diversifying Family Language Policy is a state-of-the-art reference to contemporary theoretical, methodological and ethical advances in the field of family language policy"--

1. Introduction / Lyn Wright (University of Memphis, USA) and Christina Higgins (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) -- Part I. Diverse families. 2. Family language practices of adoptive families / Mohammed Nofal and Corinne Seals (University of Wellington, New Zealand) ; 3. Intergenerational language transmission within indigenous families / Marco Espinoza Alvarado (University of Chile, Chile) and Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Melbourne, Australia) ; 4. Language ideologies and practices in multilingual LGBTQ-identified families / Zhu Hua and Kinga Kozminska (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) ; 5. Discursive functions of kinship terms in non-normative family contexts / Lyn Wright (University of Memphis, USA) ; 6. Language polices and practices in Korean diasporic families / Hakyoon Lee (Georgia State University, USA) -- Part II. Diverse modalities. 7. Managing the mobile, multilingual digital family / ¿sa Palviainen (University of Jyvs̃kyl,̃ Finland) ; 8. Managing language shift in Somali families in London / Sahra Abdullahi and Li Wei (University College of London, UK) ; 9. Researching family language policy in multilingual deaf-hearing families / Maartje De Meulder, Jemina Napier and Annelies Kusters (Heriot-Watt University, UK) ; 10. Family language policy around infants born to adolescent mothers / Frieda Coetzee (University of Cape Town, South Africa) -- Part III. Diverse speakers and contexts. 11. Affordances of 'Ohana among new speakers of Hawaiian / Christina Higgins (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) ; 12. Family language policy among Turkmen-Persian bilingual families in Iran / Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Mojtaba Rajabi and Khadijeh Aghaei (Gonbad Kavous University, Iran) ; 13. Family language policies of diverse Arabic-speaking bilingual families / Fatma Said (University of York, UK) ; 14. Marriage migrant families' strategic family language policy and practice in South Korea / Bong-gi Sohn (Simon Fraser University, Canada) ; 15. Negotiating the complexities of family language policy in African multilingual families / Carolyn McKinney and Babalwayashe Molate (University of Cape Town, South Africa) ; 16. Conclusion.