Translingual family repertoires: ‘no, Morci is itaiitai panzita, amor’

Hiratsuka, A; Pennycook, A

Translingual family repertoires: ‘no, Morci is itaiitai panzita, amor’

Hiratsuka, A Pennycook, A

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Citation:: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Issue Date:: 2019-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Hiratsuka, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pennycook, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4656-6187	en_US
dc.date.available	2021-02-04T18:05:57Z
dc.date.issued	2019-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0143-4632	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/136671
dc.description.abstract	© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Drawing on data from a longitudinal linguistic ethnographic study of a trilingual (English, Japanese, Spanish) family in Australia, this paper suggests that rather than looking at their language use in terms of family language policy, better insights can be gained by exploring the translingual family repertoire. This repertoire is a central apparatus in the operation of this family, part of what holds the family together, both as an everyday means of communication and as an ideal of family integration. It is a set of resources that different members of the family can draw on in their everyday interactions. Looking at everyday interactions in the family, and the ways these are related both to this repertoire and to surrounding objects and space, this paper suggests that the focus of language use in the family is not on heritage language maintenance or any other kind of language policy, but rather on getting by translingually, on doing family life with the aid of a repertoire of diverse resources. This has important implications for how we think about multilingual families within the wider social domain.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/01434632.2019.1645145	en_US
dc.title	Translingual family repertoires: ‘no, Morci is itaiitai panzita, amor’	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.for	1303 Specialist Studies in Education	en_US
utslib.for	2004 Linguistics	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Drawing on data from a longitudinal linguistic ethnographic study of a trilingual (English, Japanese, Spanish) family in Australia, this paper suggests that rather than looking at their language use in terms of family language policy, better insights can be gained by exploring the translingual family repertoire. This repertoire is a central apparatus in the operation of this family, part of what holds the family together, both as an everyday means of communication and as an ideal of family integration. It is a set of resources that different members of the family can draw on in their everyday interactions. Looking at everyday interactions in the family, and the ways these are related both to this repertoire and to surrounding objects and space, this paper suggests that the focus of language use in the family is not on heritage language maintenance or any other kind of language policy, but rather on getting by translingually, on doing family life with the aid of a repertoire of diverse resources. This has important implications for how we think about multilingual families within the wider social domain.

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