Language and the Family
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Language and the Family

Stretching Concepts, Challenging Methods

  1. 236 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Language and the Family

Stretching Concepts, Challenging Methods

About this book

This volume revisits language and meaning-making in family life by stretching what counts as "family" and "language" in a deliberately expansive way. Across intergenerational, mobile, and mediated contexts, the chapters examine multilingual and multivarietal repertoires, speaking and signing, embodied interaction, and more-than-human participation (including pets and technologies). A central thread is that conceptual stretching has methodological consequences: issues of access, ethics, researcher positioning, and data-making become analytic matters rather than mere constraints. Taken together, the contributions suggest that family languaging is most productively studied when categories and methods remain open to revision in the face of practice.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Chapter 1 Language and the Family: Stretching Concepts and Challenging Methods
  3. Chapter 2 Participants’ Voices and Power Imbalances in Family Language Studies: Reflections from an Ethnographic Study
  4. Chapter 3 “Act Natural!” – Self-Recordings as a Method of Data Collection in Families
  5. Chapter 4 “Every Time We Pressed REC”: Exploring the Impact of Researcher Interference on Pronoun Variation in a Belgian-Dutch Family
  6. Chapter 5 Multimodal Approaches to Meaning-Making in Family Dinners
  7. Chapter 6 “Italian is Nonna Language.” Exploring the Role of Grandparents in Multilingual Families using English as a Lingua Franca
  8. Chapter 7 Everyday Language Practices in the Family: “After the Beep, Say a Command”
  9. Chapter 8 Feline Sociolinguistic Agency: Exploring Cats’ Role in Doing Family
  10. Chapter 9 Playful Approaches to Take Family Language Policy Seriously: Collaborative Building (CB) as a Complementary Task
  11. Chapter 10 Thinking Out of the Box About Family and Language: Resisting Conceptual Binaries, Expanding Methods
  12. Index

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Edition
1
Year
2026
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Print ISBN
9783111419763
Subtopic
Communication Studies
eBook ISBN
9783111420080
Index
Languages & Linguistics

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