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Publication details [#56431]

Tannenbaum, Michal. 2012. Family language policy as a form of coping or defence mechanism. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 33 (1) : 57–66.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emotion | family conversation | language policy

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Using a psychoanalytic theoretical framework, this paper proposes a reconceptualisation of family language policy (FLP), examining it in terms of its coping and defence functions, to help explain the centrality of emotional aspects within.