Family Language Policy among Kurdish-Persian Speaking Families in Kermanshah, Iran

Autor/inn/en	Tamleh, Hadis; Rezaei, Saeed; Boivin, Nettie
Titel	Family Language Policy among Kurdish-Persian Speaking Families in Kermanshah, Iran
Quelle	In: Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 41 (2022) 6, S.743-767 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tamleh, Hadis) ORCID (Rezaei, Saeed) ORCID (Boivin, Nettie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0167-8507
DOI	10.1515/multi-2021-0130
Schlagwörter	Family Relationship; Language Maintenance; Indo European Languages; Bilingualism; Parent Child Relationship; Language Attitudes; Language Usage; Native Language; Second Language Learning; Language Minorities; Ethnography; Language Planning; Parent Attitudes; Translation; Language Proficiency; Foreign Countries; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachpflege; Indoeuropäisch; Bilingualismus; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Sprachverhalten; Sprachgebrauch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachminderheit; Ethnografie; Sprachwechsel; Elternverhalten; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Ausland
Abstract	Minority language studies have received increasing attention over the last decade in Iran. Drawing on Spolsky's (Spolsky, Bernard. 2004. "Language policy." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) language policy theoretical framework, this inquiry reports on the language ideologies, practices, and management efforts of an under-explored group of Kurdish families residing in the city of Kermanshah. To this end, semi-structured interviews and ethnographic fieldwork guided the collection of data from 40 Kurdish-Persian bilingual parents. The thematic analysis of data revealed glaring inconsistencies among the three elements of family language policy (FLP). That is parents' strong attachment to Kurdish did not necessarily translate into their language practices and efforts. The results also suggest that the studied parents adopted a subtractive approach to their children's proficiency in Kurdish. We argue that parents are not the core force in heritage language maintenance and there are other external factors determining the transmission of the home language. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01