Publications

Publication details [#51381]

Jones, Kathryn E. and Delyth Morris. 2009. Issues of gender and parents' language values in the minority language socialisation of young children in Wales. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009 (195) : 117–139.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | gender | language attitude | mother-child conversation | socialization

Language as a subject

English, British | Welsh

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This ethnographic study reveals that both Welsh-speaking mothers and fathers in “mixed-language” households, who valued Welsh greatly, were more inclined to develop home opportunities for their young children's Welsh language socialisation.