Search for dissertations about: "Family language policy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Family language policy.

2. 1. Nurturing a heritage language : Language-centered practices in mother-child interactions in multilingual families

   Author : Olga Abreu Fernandes; Ann-Carita Evaldsson; Helen Melander Bowden; Mathew Burdelski; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; language-centered practices; language learning environments; multilingual children; family interaction; family language policy; heritage language maintenance; language socialization; bilingual literacy; multimodal interactional analysis; Russian; Pedagogik; Education; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Abstract : Situated within research on language socialization and family language policy, this thesis explores how young children (2–4 years old) learn their heritage language in multilingual, transnational families, and how multilingualism becomes an integral part of family life. It draws on video-ethnographic fieldwork in three bi/multilingual families in Sweden with preschool-aged children where the mothers speak Russian and the parents aspire to raise children multilingually. READ MORE

4. 2. Family Language Policies and Immigrant Language Maintenance : Lithuanian in Sweden

   Author : Frederik H. Bissinger; Peteris Vanags; Anneli Sarhimaa; Katharina M. Ruuska; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; family language policy; language maintenance; language practices; language management; language ideologies; harmonious bilingual development; sociolinguistics; ethnography; Lithuanian; Sweden; baltiska språk; Baltic Languages;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates family language policies of Lithuanian families in Sweden and strives to shed some light on the maintenance of Lithuanian as a heritage language. The aims of the study are to understand how Lithuanian families in Sweden construct, negotiate and implement their family language policies, and to identify challenges regarding the maintenance of Lithuanian which Lithuanian families in Sweden encounter. READ MORE

5. 3. From family language practices to family language policies : Children as socializing agents

   Author : Mina Kheirkhah; Asta Cekaite; Helena Bani-Shoraka; Elizabeth Lanza; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Family language policy; multilingualism; language socialization; Familj språkpolicy; flerspråkighet; språk socialisation;

   Abstract : combining approaches to family language policy with a language socialization approach, the present thesis examines family interoctions in five bi/multilingual lronian families in Sweden. The foci of the thesis have emerged from viewing and analyzing video-recordings of the families' everyday interactions, interviews and observations conducted during two phases of fieldwork. READ MORE

6. 4. Language practices in Swedish-English families

   Author : Tim Roberts; Erica Sandlund; Marika Kjellén; Silvia Kunitz; Elizabeth Lanza; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; family language policy; bilingualism; conversation analysis; rhizome; linguistic repertoires; Swedish; English; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines the family language practices of Swedish-English families using an interdisciplinary and mixed-method approach. The principal aim is to empirically document what these practices are, as well as how practices interact with various ideological, conceptual, and contextual factors. READ MORE

7. 5. Rethinking solidarity in European asylum law : A critical reading of the key concept in contemporary refugee policy

   Author : Eleni Karageorgiou; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Solidarity; Friendship; French solidarism; Article 80 TFEU; Common European Asylum System; Dublin Regulation; responsibility sharing; Syrian Refugees; Refugee crisis; EU-law; Public international law; EU-rätt; Folkrätt;

   Abstract : It is easy to get carried away with the rhetoric of solidarity. Rethinking solidarity aims to problematize the way that solidarity has been conceptualized and applied as a governing principle of EU asylum law and policy, in particular as a response to the 2015–2016 ‘refugee crisis’. READ MORE