Bilingual Pre-Teens - Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.s. And Germany

This volume examines the connection between socio-economic class and bilingual practices, a previously under-researched area, through looking at differences in bilingual settings that are classified as "immigrant" or "elite" and are thus linked to socio-economic class categories.

Sommario

Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Bilingual discourse, identities and ideologies 2. Normative monolingualism in the USA: immigrant bilingualism and the stigmatization of Spanish 3. Amigos amid Americanos: a linguistic ethnography of a Spanish-English transitional bilingual education classroom 4. Language ideologies in Berlin, Germany: normative monolingualism and elite bilingualism 5. Speaking your mother tongue in the fatherland: a linguistic ethnography of a German-English dual language classroom 6. Conclusion

Info autore

Janet M. Fuller Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Riassunto

This volume examines the connection between socio-economic class and bilingual practices, a previously under-researched area, through looking at differences in bilingual settings that are classified as "immigrant" or "elite" and are thus linked to socio-economic class categories.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Janet M Fuller, Janet M. Fuller, Janet M. (Southern Illinois University At Fuller
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138107212
• ISBN: 978-1-138-10721-2
• Pagine: 188
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata