The attitudes at the heart of multilingual family language policies
Ruth Kircher,
Melanie Brouillard,
Alexa Ahooja
et al.
Abstract:Family language policies encompass three components: language beliefs, language practices, and language management. This study focuses on language beliefs, which we approach from an attitudes perspective, presenting a corpus-assisted discourse study of parental attitudes towards childhood multilingualism. Based on corpora (over 30,000 words) comprising 742 Quebec-based parents’ responses to an open-ended survey question, we analyse frequencies, collocations, concordance lines, and longer text segments. Our fin… Show more
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