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'It Creates a Whole Linkage with Your Ancestral Line': Language Socialisation, Family Lineage, and Language Choice at Diasporic Irish Immersion Events in Ontario
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Giles, Jonathan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Colonialism and displacement have not only led to the migration of millions of Irish people and the endangerment of the Irish language, but also to a subjectivity in which it is possible to struggle against the risk of language loss. This paper explores the importance of sharing stories and information about family at second-language Irish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Irish, Story Telling, Genealogy
The Politics of Codeswitching and Language Choice.
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Heller, Monica – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Using data from ethnographic studies of the use of French and English in Ontario and Quebec in a variety of settings during 1978-90, this paper discusses language choice as a political strategy, especially for ethnic mobilization. Codeswitching is described in terms of individual communicative repertoires and community speech economies. (41…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries
Language Attitudes and Self-Reports of French-English Language Usage in Quebec.
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Bourhis, Richard Y. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1983
Explores the impact of Quebec language planning in favor of French on self-reports of language use in cross-cultural encounters between Francophones and Anglophones in Montreal. Results indicate that discrepancies exist between respondents' self-reports of language use and their reported experience and that motivational and normative factors…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English, Foreign Countries, French