“Language policies Greek speaking families apply when raising their children in a bi/multilingual environment: how the Greek language is being challenged by bilingualism”.
2017 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
All over the world, there are people speaking a minority language in a bi/multilingual environment and many of those people choose to shift to languages of wider communication. Family’s role is on focus, in order to preserve and maintain minority language alive. Family has a very significant role in child’s language socialization. In combination with the family language policy approach (FLP), the interest can be shifted to what can be done in order to maintain a minority language alive. This study, influenced by the language socialization and FLP approach, is focusing on Greek speaking parents raising their children bilingually in Sweden. More specific, the research aims to bring out the language practices that thirteen parents narrate they apply and the challenges they encounter in the process of language maintenance and shift. Four group interviews were conducted and the data, which were analyzed with the help of the thematic analysis, prove that language management and planning differ from family to family and cannot be static, while many factors, such as children’s agency, influence the language maintenance process.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. , p. 39
Keywords [en]
language practices, language maintenance and shift, group interviews, parents, thematic analysis
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-141623ISRN: LIU-TEMAB/MPCS-A-17/012-SEOAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-141623DiVA, id: diva2:1146747
Subject / course
Master's Programme in Child Studies (120 ECTS credits)
Presentation
2017-09-04, Tema Barn, Linkoping University, 20:06 (English)
Supervisors
Examiners
2018-04-262017-10-032018-04-26Bibliographically approved