Language, Diaspora, Home - Identity and Womens Linguistic Space-Making

Language, Diaspora, and Home explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gatekeepers of family languages toward creating a sense of "home."

List of contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Language, Diaspora, Home; 2. Basement Methodologies: Methods and Motivations; 3. Language in Motion: Mothers, Children, and Linguistic Circulation; 4. “Mending that Wound”: Creating Linguistic Futures in a Diasporic Space; 5. Listen to Your Mother: Home, Migration, and Language; 6. “Particularized Worlds”: Translingual Writing as Borderland Space; 7. “Talk ‘bout Battle fuh Language!”: Disidentification and Memory in the Poetry of Esther Phillips; 8. A flat White and a Banh Mi: Third Spaces, Gender, and Language in the Suburban City; 9. Island Homes; Conclusion; Index

About the author

Heather Robinson is Professor of English at York College/City University of New York. She is the lead co-author of Translingual Identities and Transnational Realities in the U.S. College Classroom (Routledge, 2020) as well as various journal articles and book chapters that have appeared in such varied venues such as Women’s Writing, American Speech, Administrative Theory and Praxis, and Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean (2019).

Summary

Language, Diaspora, and Home explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gatekeepers of family languages toward creating a sense of “home.”

Product details

• Authors: Heather Robinson, Robinson Heather
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032328782
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3232878-2
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, International Relations, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural anthropology, Research methods: general