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Bilingual Pre-Teens : Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U. S. and Germany

By Janet M. Fuller

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136275609, 9780415807289
LCC
P115.2 .F85 2012
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3217339 bytes)
Series
Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
184\184
Time added
2023-08-03 09:22:29
Bilingual -- Cross-cultural studies. ; MultilinguaBilingualism in children -- United States. ; Bilin

Description

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. Fuller chooses for this examination bilingual pre-teen children in Germany and the U.S. in order to demonstrate how local identities are embedded in a wider social world and how ideologies and identities both produce and reproduce each other. In so doing, she argues that while pre-teen children are clearly influenced by macro-level ideologies, they also have agency in how they choose to construct their identities with relation to hegemonic societal discourses, and have many other motivations and identities aside from social class membership which shape their linguistic practices.

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