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Susan C. Baker; Heather Sparling; Peter D. MacIntyre – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Language is often used to demonstrate group membership and to establish cultural identity. When the language is not readily available or is at risk, individuals tend to turn to other markers to develop their cultural identity. Using Leximancer for thematic and conceptual analyses of interviews with ten accomplished musicians in Nova Scotia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Musicians, Indo European Languages, Second Language Learning
Max Antony-Newman – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Due to the increased mobility and linguistic and cultural diversity internationally, there has been a renewed interest in the linguistic practices of immigrant families. Earlier scholarship focused on the difference between parenting in monolingual contexts and bilingual parenting conceptualised as management of more than one language in a family.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Immigrants
Susan Gary Walters – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Nuosu script, a unique character-based script with a long history, permeates the public spaces of Xichang, the capital of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China. Using interviews, photos, observations, and documents, this qualitative study discovers the uses and meanings of Nuosu script in the linguistic landscape (LL). The…
Descriptors: Written Language, Geographic Regions, Sociocultural Patterns, Accuracy
Bekus, Nelly – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
This article discusses the Belarusian case of post-communist development and the role and status of Belarusian ethnicity in Belarus' nation-formation process. "Nationalizing nationalism" (Brubaker), as realised by the Belarusian state through various social and cultural practices, is aimed at the creation of a Belarusian national entity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Self Concept, Role
Draper, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This article contextualises and presents to the academic community the full dataset of the Isan Culture Maintenance and Revitalisation Programme's (ICMRP) multilingual signage survey. The ICMRP is a four-year European Union co-sponsored project in Northeast Thailand. This article focuses on one aspect of the project, four surveys each of 1,500…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Signs, Surveys, Language Attitudes
Polese, Abel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The end of the cold war prompted most of the former Soviet republics to face ethnic issues that had remained latent or intangible for decades. Whilst some ethnic groups were actively campaigning for their rights, some others seemed uninterested in being represented politically. The recent theory of hot and cold ethnicity has been conceived to…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Ethnic Groups
Dorjee, Tenzin; Giles, Howard; Barker, Valerie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
Diasporic communities around the world regularly encounter challenges of preserving their identities and communication practices while adapting to their host social-cultural environment. Grounded in communication accommodation theory (CAT) and informed by recent research on deviance, this study investigated the relationships between Tibetan…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Linguistic Theory
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
Rajuan, Maureen; Bekerman, Zvi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
This study is based on data from teachers' research reports in the context of an in-service workshop for professional development for teachers of the bilingual-integrated Palestinian-Jewish Schools in Israel. We used conventional qualitative methods, looking for patterns and thematic issues of relevance, which were then coded to allow for further…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Jews, Workshops, Foreign Countries
Kumar, Nootan; Trofimovich, Pavel; Gatbonton, Elizabeth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
Although it is commonly believed that language and culture are inexorably linked, the precise nature of this relationship remains elusive. This study investigated the hypothesis that a loss in language signals a loss in culture if language is considered a central value. This hypothesis was investigated by rating the Hindi and English proficiency…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance, Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries
Giles, Howard; Dorjee, Tenzin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005
Tibetan civilisation is over two millenniums old and, today, its struggles in diaspora open up a new chapter in Tibetan history. Diasporic Tibetans (e.g. in India and the USA) have made tremendous efforts over the last few decades to maintain their way of life. We focus on cultural identity in the Tibetan diasporas, with special attention focused…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Self Concept