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Publication details [#52979]

Evaldsson, Ann-Carita and Asta Cekaite. 2010. Subverting and reproducing institutionalized norms for language use in multilingual peer groups. Pragmatics 20 (4) : 587–604.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | language use | monolingualism | multilingualism | peer group

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study discusses how playful heteroglossic peer group interactions involving minority children in two primary monolingual Swedish school settings, are very equivocal and paradoxically tend to strenghten power hierarchies and values linked to different social languages and codes, thus co-constructing monolingual ideology.