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Publication details [#66342]

Purkarthofer, Judith and Guri Bordal Steien. 2019. “Prétendre comme si on connaît pas une autre langue que le swahili”: Multilingual parents in Norway on change and continuity in their family language policies. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2019 (255) : 109–132.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
family conversation | family role | language policy | language transfer | mother-child conversation | multilingualism
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper assays conversations where six multilingual parents in Norway talk about their experiences and intentions concerning family language policies (FLP), and in particular, their reasons for the transmission of (some of their) languages to their children.