Linguistic trajectories and family language policy from the perspective of multilingual young adults in Mexico

Research into Family Language Policy (FLP) focuses on language planning by and among family members within home spaces. In this study we gather data from multilingual young adults with different backgrounds across Mexico through an online questionnaire. We use a trajectory approach to look at how FL...

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Published in:Language policy 2023-12, Vol.22 (4), p.457-475
Main Authors: Nelson, Dana K., Herrera Ruano, Jesahe, Parra Gutiérrez, Rodrigo, Zepeda Huerta, Jesús H. K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to Computers
Applied Linguistics
Children & youth
Communication
Diversity
Families & family life
Family Environment
Foreign Countries
Generational Differences
Global Approach
Globalization
Ideology
Intergenerational mobility
Language acquisition
Language Education
Language Planning
Language policy
Language shift
Language Usage
Languages
Linguistics
Literacy
Multilingualism
Native languages
Neoliberalism
Oral Language
Original Paper
Political Science
Social Mobility
Social Sciences
Socialization
Sociolinguistics
Young Adults
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Summary:Research into Family Language Policy (FLP) focuses on language planning by and among family members within home spaces. In this study we gather data from multilingual young adults with different backgrounds across Mexico through an online questionnaire. We use a trajectory approach to look at how FLP changes over time and space from the perspective of young adults. Our data provides a diversity of young adult perspectives on the construction of linguistic trajectories, their relationship with the interventions, practices, and ideologies in the negotiation and emergence of FLPs, as well as how young adults are, or are not, using multilingual resources in digitally mediated family communication. Our findings show the dynamism of FLP over time and space, the diversity inherent in multilingual FLPs in Mexico, and how questions of mobility, generational differences, orality vs. literacy, digital access, globalization, and neoliberalism impact linguistic trajectories and FLP in Mexican multilingual young adults.
ISSN:1568-4555
1573-1863
DOI:10.1007/s10993-023-09670-7