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Publication details [#65156]

Obojska, Maria and Judith Purkarthofer. 2018. ‘And all of a sudden, it became my rescue’: language and agency in transnational families in Norway. The International Journal of Multilingualism 15 (3) : 249–261.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | family conversation | language | language policy | multilingualism

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores how agency is built by members of two transnational families residing in Norway in biographically oriented interviews. It centers on how family members discern and build their agency when it comes to language acquisition, preservation and management.