TY - JOUR
T1 - A Tale of Three Sisters
T2 - Language Ideologies, Identities, and Negotiations in a Bilingual, Transnational Family
AU - King, Kendall A.
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - This longitudinal case study investigated how linguistic identity was constructed, constrained, and performed by three sisters, aged 1, 12, and 17, within one bilingual, transnational Ecuadorian-U.S. family. Data were collected over 14 months through weekly home visits that included participant observation, informal interviews, and family-generated audio-recordings of home conversations. Ethnographically informed discourse analysis of family interactions and interviews examined how each of the three daughters was positioned and positioned herself discursively as a language learner and user, and how locally held ideologies about language and language learning shaped the ways in which identities and family roles were constructed and enacted. These findings sharpen our understanding of how widely circulating discourses and ideologies of language-and ideologies of language learning in particular-shape family language practices as well as children's ascribed and prescribed identities within the large and growing number of transnational families in the United States and beyond.
AB - This longitudinal case study investigated how linguistic identity was constructed, constrained, and performed by three sisters, aged 1, 12, and 17, within one bilingual, transnational Ecuadorian-U.S. family. Data were collected over 14 months through weekly home visits that included participant observation, informal interviews, and family-generated audio-recordings of home conversations. Ethnographically informed discourse analysis of family interactions and interviews examined how each of the three daughters was positioned and positioned herself discursively as a language learner and user, and how locally held ideologies about language and language learning shaped the ways in which identities and family roles were constructed and enacted. These findings sharpen our understanding of how widely circulating discourses and ideologies of language-and ideologies of language learning in particular-shape family language practices as well as children's ascribed and prescribed identities within the large and growing number of transnational families in the United States and beyond.
KW - Ecuador
KW - bilingualism
KW - identity
KW - language ideology
KW - sibling
KW - transnationalism
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U2 - 10.1080/19313152.2013.746800
DO - 10.1080/19313152.2013.746800
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84873186376
SN - 1931-3152
VL - 7
SP - 49
EP - 65
JO - International Multilingual Research Journal
JF - International Multilingual Research Journal
IS - 1
ER -