Bilingual Pre-Teens: Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.S. and Germany Contributor(s): Fuller, Janet M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 041580728X ISBN-13: 9780415807289 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics - Education | Bilingual Education - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
Dewey: 404.208 |
LCCN: 2011053357 |
Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 188 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 influenced by macro-level ideologies, they also have agency in how they choose to construct their identities with relation to hegemonic societal discourses, and have many other motivations and identities aside from social class membership which shape their linguistic practices. |