TY - JOUR
T1 - Ideology, agency, and imagination in multilingual families
T2 - An introduction
AU - King, Kendall
AU - Lanza, Elizabeth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - Ideology, identity and agency are central concerns in the current study of multilingualism and transnational families as greater analytical attention is given to how multilingual families imagine and collectively construct themselves. This introduction reviews recent shifts in the study of multilingual families and discusses the four articles that comprise this thematic issue. Together, these four papers present new empirical data concerning a wide array of family language practices and policies, differing in noteworthy ways, and in particular in terms of contexts and languages studied. As demonstrated here, these articles critically analyze the everyday ways in which ideologies, identities, agency, and imagination are created and enacted among multilingual families in divergent contexts. These analyses provide important windows into how meaning is produced within particular places, activities, social relations, interactional histories, and cultural ideologies, and collectively, this body of work advances our understanding of language use and learning within multilingual families.
AB - Ideology, identity and agency are central concerns in the current study of multilingualism and transnational families as greater analytical attention is given to how multilingual families imagine and collectively construct themselves. This introduction reviews recent shifts in the study of multilingual families and discusses the four articles that comprise this thematic issue. Together, these four papers present new empirical data concerning a wide array of family language practices and policies, differing in noteworthy ways, and in particular in terms of contexts and languages studied. As demonstrated here, these articles critically analyze the everyday ways in which ideologies, identities, agency, and imagination are created and enacted among multilingual families in divergent contexts. These analyses provide important windows into how meaning is produced within particular places, activities, social relations, interactional histories, and cultural ideologies, and collectively, this body of work advances our understanding of language use and learning within multilingual families.
KW - Multilingualism
KW - agency
KW - ideology
KW - imagination
KW - language policy
KW - migration
KW - transnational families
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U2 - 10.1177/1367006916684907
DO - 10.1177/1367006916684907
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85049249073
SN - 1367-0069
VL - 23
SP - 717
EP - 723
JO - International Journal of Bilingualism
JF - International Journal of Bilingualism
IS - 3
ER -