Publications

Publication details [#51286]

Koven, Michèle. 2009. Managing relationships and identities through forms of address: What French–Portuguese bilinguals call their parents in each language. Language & Communication 29 (4) : 343–365.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

address | bilingualism | identity negotiation | language dominance | mother-child conversation

Language as a subject

French | Portuguese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Exploring bilingual French-Portuguese adult second generation migrants' choice of address forms towards their parents, this study examines language “dominance” as partially defined by speakers’ ideological positioning and attitudes regarding socially indexical forms in and across each involved language.