- 168 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gate-keepers of family languages towards creating a sense of home.
The volume features an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on work from narrative, storytelling, literary studies, and linguistic anthropology, as well as interviews with multiple generations of immigrant families, to reflect on the ways these families foster a sense of home and maintain connections to their homelands through language. Robinson showcases the voices of a diverse range of families to examine the choices women in immigrant families make between the use of family languages, dominant community languages, or a mix of the two. The volume enhances our understanding of the ways in which immigrants navigate the linguistic landscapes of home and community amid migration and diaspora.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, language and gender, and language and migration.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Language, Diaspora, Home
- 2 Basement Methodologies: Methods and Motivations
- 3 Language in Motion: Mothers, Children, and Linguistic Circulation
- 4 âMending that Woundâ: Creating Linguistic Futures in a Diasporic Space
- 5 Listen to Your Mother: Home, Migration, and Language
- 6 âParticularized Worldsâ: Translingual Writing as Borderland Space
- 7 âTalk âbout Battle fuh Language!â: Disidentification and Memory in the Poetry of Esther Phillips
- 8 A Flat White and a Banh Mi: Third Spaces, Gender, and Language in the Suburban City
- 9 Island Homes
- 10 Conclusion
- Index