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Schluter, Anne Ambler – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
As a well documented example of language planning that links national unity with language practice and has resulted in systemic attempts to linguistically and culturally assimilate its Kurdish populations, the Turkish national context has adopted standard language ideologies since its founding. Previous research has highlighted efforts by Kurdish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Indo European Languages, Dialects
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Taqavi, Mahtab; Rezaei, Amir – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This study investigates Azerbaijani bilinguals' language choice and identity construction processes in family and friendship domains. Individual interviews were conducted with 19 (11 male, 8 female) participants. The emerged themes were classified under three categories, i.e. age, gender and language ideologies. The findings revealed that language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Self Concept, Family Relationship, Friendship
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Et-Bozkurt, Tülay; Yagmur, Kutlay – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study investigated the Family Language Policy of second- and third-generation Turkish parents in Melbourne, Australia. Earlier research has shown that the family home is a crucial site for language maintenance [Fishman 1991. "Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages."…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Turkish, English (Second Language)
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Bohnacker, Ute – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper explores family language policy in Turkish-speaking families in Sweden. Questionnaires were administered to the parents of 105 Turkish/Swedish children (age 4-7), targeting family language practices (including parent-parent, parent-child, child-parent, child-and-sibling conversation and language-fostering activities such as joint book…
Descriptors: Turkish, Swedish, Language Usage, Family Relationship
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Prevoo, Marielle J. L.; Mesman, Judi; Van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H.; Pieper, Suzanne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
This study investigated the development and correlates of language use in bilingual Turkish-Dutch immigrant mothers and their toddlers. In this short-term longitudinal study 87 mothers completed questionnaires on their Dutch and Turkish language use, ethnic identity and use of childcare. Observational data were obtained for maternal supportive…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Mothers, Toddlers, Questionnaires
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Lytra, Vally – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
In this paper, I draw on interview data to explore parents' constructions of language and identity in two London Turkish complementary schools. I examine parents' evaluative talk about standard Turkish, Cypriot-Turkish and other regional varieties of Turkish, the cultural values they attach to them and images of personhood these invoke. I…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Personal Narratives, Turkish
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Jorgensen, J. Normann – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2003
Introduces the topic of this special issue of the journal--linguistic construction and negotiation of social relations among bilingual Turkish-speaking adolescents in North-western Europe. The studies included focus on Turkish-German bilinguals and the Koge project in Denmark, a longitudinal study of bilingual development among Turkish Danes.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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Komondouros, Markos; McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2007
The Greek Orthodox community of Istanbul has long existed as a bilingual Greek and Turkish grouping and remains largely unstudied. The sharp decrease in the size of this community to approximately 1000 members raises questions as to the maintenance of Greek in this setting. This study attempts to establish the current status of Greek in the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance, Greek, Foreign Countries
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Cromdal, Jakob – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2003
Highlights the bilingual aspects of social interaction in a group of four Danish-Turkish students engaged in creating a cartoon strip. In-depth analysis of a 45-minute session reveals some organizational features of the group's work. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Danish, Foreign Countries
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Dirim, Inci; Hieronymus, Andreas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2003
Approaches the linguistic setting of a European inner-city, an area with a long history of migration from a sociological and linguistic perspective. After a qualititative-heuristic approach and conversation analysis, presents a description of sociolingual conditions and the process of their transformation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, German
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Huls, Erica; Backus, Ad; Klomps, Saskia; Jorgensen, Jens Normann – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2003
Proposes four different operationalizations of the basic hypothesis of politeness theory, ranging from the possibility that linguistic choices are determined by social norms to one allowing considerable freedom of choice for individual language users. Reports on a questionnaire carried out with adolescents in two urban multicultural areas:…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Danish, Foreign Countries, Intergroup Relations
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Hinnenkamp, Volker – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2003
Presents a study of mixed language use within the frame of interactional sociolinguistics by looking at how adolescents of Turkish background living in Germany have developed their own patterns of bilingualism. Analyzes transcripts of Turkish-German mixed speech and shows that the switching and mixing oscillates between local sequential functions…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Foreign Countries
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Jorgensen, J. Normann – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2003
Analyzes conversation 501 from the Koge (Denmark) project for the four adolescents speakers' use of five to six different language varieties. Code choice patterns are shown to function in a range of ways. Suggests the multifaceted behavior of the Turkish-Danish adolescents is languaging, which is in principle what other human beings do.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Danish, Foreign Countries
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Leseman, P. P. M.; van Tuijl, C. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2001
Reports the results of an intensive 2-year home-based educational program for 4-6 year old Turkish minority children in the Netherlands. Mothers who worked with their children at home carried out the structured program in Turkish. Overall, results indicate that involving parents in their children's education through a structured home-based…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Home Programs, Language Minorities
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Madsen, Lian Malai – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2003
Focuses on interactional dominance and power wielding in bilingual conversation among school children. Finds that different pragmatic strategies are used by bilingual children as a means of negotiating power relationships and identities, but that the social relations and the power bases brought into the conversations by interactants make the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Danish, Elementary Education
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