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eprints-9907
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| recordtype |
eprints
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| institution |
SOAS, University of London
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| collection |
SOAS Research Online
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| language |
English
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| language_search |
English
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| description |
Our contribution explores the language maintenance (LM) patterns of children of migrants (second-generation) to Australia from three ethnolinguistic groups — German, Greek, and Vietnamese — in their same-age peer friendships. Focusing on the affective social relationship of “friendship” imagined as a dynamic fluid site of independence and a locale for identity formation, we scrutinize it as a pressure point for LM. The macro survey trends indicate that languages other than English (LOTE) are used in the friendship domain but with differing participations. Follow-up in-depth interviews reveal subtleties and complexities for LM practices. Co-presence of bilingual others in friendships proves to be a minimum but not sufficient condition for LM, particularly for German men and Greek women. Hyphenated belongings — for example, Vietnamese-, Greek-, German-Australians — construct varying LM alignments that reflect shared histories and authenticities (the migration experience) and the localizing of settlement (Australia).
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| format |
Journal Article
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| author |
Winter, Joanne
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| author_facet |
Winter, Joanne
Pauwels, Anne
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| authorStr |
Winter, Joanne
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| author_letter |
Winter, Joanne
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| author2 |
Pauwels, Anne
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| author2Str |
Pauwels, Anne
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| title |
Language maintenance in friendships: second-generation German, Greek, and Vietnamese migrants
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| publisher |
De Gruyter
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| publishDate |
2006
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| url |
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/9907/
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