Family Language Policies in a Multilingual World

John Macalister is Associate Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi is Lecturer at Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Iran.

• 1. Beginnings John Macalister & Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi Part I: Challenges in Family Language Policy 2. Family Language Policy: New Directions Cassie Smith-Christmas 3. Family Language Policy for Deaf Children and the Vitality of New Zealand Sign Language Rachel McKee & Kirsten Smiler4. Family Language Practices as Emergent Policies in Child-Headed Households in Rural Uganda Maureen Kendrick & Elizabeth Namazzi5. Exploring Family Language policies Among Azerbaijani-Speaking Families in the City of Tabriz, Iran Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi6. The Role of the Zapotec Language from Lozoga’ in the Californian Migrant Community Daisy Bernal Lorenzo7. Adrift in an Anglophone World: Refugee Families’ Language Policy Challenges Diego Navarro & John Macalister PART II: Opportunities in Family Language Policy 8. How Religious Ideologies and Practices Impact on Family Language Policy – Ethiopians in Wellington Melanie Revis9. "I speak all of the language!": Engaging in Family Language Policy Research with Multilingual Children in Montreal Alison Crump10. Dynamic Family Language Policy: Heritage Language Socialization and Strategic Accommodation in the Home Corinne Seals11. Language Ideologies, Social Capital, and Interaction Strategies: AN ethnogrpah8ic Case Study of Family Language Policy in Singapore Guangwei Hu & Li Ren PART III: Consequences for Family Language Policy 12. Home: A Confluence of Discourses in Multilingual Linguistic Ecologies Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi & John Macalister

"An important contribution to the new studies that help understand why the family is such an important site for the study of language policy. This interesting collection of cases makes clear the complex external influences and internal beliefs (some probably mistaken) that influence language choice in the family and neighborhood."Bernard Spolsky, Professor Emeritus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel"Family language transmission is closely intertwined with social and political macro developments. By shaping language transmission, families themselves act as political players, (un)consciously opposing or following power relations. This volume on family language choice thus provides invaluable perspectives on potential balance and power shifts within the near future and in different contexts around the world."Katharina Brizić, Professor, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany