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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462402303321

Autore

Fuller Janet M. <1962-, >

Titolo

Bilingual pre-teens : competing ideologies and multiple identities in the U.S. and Germany / / Janet M. Fuller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-58617-7

9786613898623

0-203-11064-1

1-136-27560-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in sociolinguistics ; ; 6

Disciplina

404/.2083

Soggetti

Bilingualism in children - United States

Bilingualism in children - Germany

Languages in contact - United States

Languages in contact - Germany

Education, Bilingual

Multilingualism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: bilingual discourse, identities and ideologies -- Normative monolingualism in the USA: immigrant bilingualism and the stigmatization of Spanish -- Amigos amid Americanos: a linguistic ethnography of a Spanish-English transitional bilingual education classroom -- Language ideologies in Berlin, Germany: normative monolingualism and elite bilingualism -- Speaking your mother tongue in the Fatherland: a linguistic ethnography of a German-English dual language classroom.

Sommario/riassunto

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 infl