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Seals, Corinne A.; Beliaeva, Natalia – Language Policy, 2023
The current article applies interactional sociolinguistic discourse analysis to interviews with three parents of Ukrainian families living in New Zealand to further complexify what we know about Family Language Policy (FLP) and language transmission. More specifically, this article theorizes what we call "Aspirational FLP"--when the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Language Usage, Native Language
Seals, Corinne A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Previous research in the field of heritage language (HL) acquisition has focused on the connection between frequency of language use and HL speakers' connection to and maintenance of their HL. This dissertation introduces the concept of positioning through discourse into the study of HLs to show evidence that while frequency of HL use contributes…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Self Concept, Ethnography, Rural Areas