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Ellis, Elizabeth Margaret; Sims, Margaret – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
A key factor that has been found to be critical in shaping family language policy is parents' linguistic identities, or "parents' personal experiences with bilingualism, biculturalism or second language learning" (King, Kendall A. & Lyn Fogle. 2006. Bilingual parenting as good parenting: Parents' perspectives on family language…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Parent Attitudes, Family Environment, Language Usage
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Racine, Sam J. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1999
Examines some examples of discourse practices among managers and employees in the customer service department of a large manufacturing firm. Shows how knowledge of the ways that language can both include and exclude people from cultural groups in the worksite can help professional communicators facilitate more effective and responsible…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Cultural Isolation, Discourse Analysis, Employer Employee Relationship
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Al-Khatib, Mahmoud A.; Al-Ali, Mohammed N. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
In this paper we examine the language situation among the Gypsies of Jordan within the framework of previous theories on language maintenance and shift as proposed by Le Page, Fishman, Dorian and Kelman. The study investigates language and cultural maintenance among the Gypsies of Jordan to permit comparison of the relative influences of various…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Maintenance, Cultural Maintenance, Cultural Isolation