Bilingual Pre-Teens: Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.S. an

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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.

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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.

Author Biography

Janet M. Fuller Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Table of Contents

Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Bilingual discourse, identities and ideologies 2. Normative monolingualism in the USA: immigrant bilingualism and the stigmatization of Spanish 3. Amigos amid Americanos: a linguistic ethnography of a Spanish-English transitional bilingual education classroom 4. Language ideologies in Berlin, Germany: normative monolingualism and elite bilingualism 5. Speaking your mother tongue in the fatherland: a linguistic ethnography of a German-English dual language classroom 6. Conclusion

Review

"Fuller's book shows how a single practice—code switching among elementary school children in school—can assume different forms and have dramatically different meanings in two different historical and ideological contexts. Her analysis of elite bilingualism in a German school—and its comparison to a US Latino site--will help US scholars of bilingualism to see the historical and political particularity of the bilingual situations most studied in the US, that of the immigrant second generation." – Benjamin Bailey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst"Due to its clear focus, this book caters to an audience interested in sociolinguistics, language and identity, discourse analysis, bilingual education, and linguistic ethnography. It would also be helpful for students seeking an understanding of sociolinguistic research methodologies." - Haomin Zhang, LINGUIST List

Review Quote

"Fuller's book shows how a single practice--code switching among elementary school children in school--can assume different forms and have dramatically different meanings in two different historical and ideological contexts. Her analysis of elite bilingualism in a German school--and its comparison to a US Latino site--will help US scholars of bilingualism to see the historical and political particularity of the bilingual situations most studied in the US, that of the immigrant second generation." - Benjamin Bailey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "Due to its clear focus, this book caters to an audience interested in sociolinguistics, language and identity, discourse analysis, bilingual education, and linguistic ethnography. It would also be helpful for students seeking an understanding of sociolinguistic research methodologies." - Haomin Zhang, LINGUIST List

Details ISBN1138107212 Year 2017 ISBN-10 1138107212 ISBN-13 9781138107212 Format Paperback Series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics Imprint Routledge Subtitle Competing Ideologies and Multiple Identities in the U.S. and Germany Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 404.2083 Author Janet M. Fuller Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2017-05-31 Affiliation Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA Short Title Bilingual Pre-Teens Language English UK Release Date 2017-05-31 AU Release Date 2017-05-31 NZ Release Date 2017-05-31 Illustrations 2 Tables, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white Pages 188 Alternative 9780415807289 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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