Language and the family : stretching concepts, challenging methods / edited by Luk Van Mensel, Eline Zenner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mensel, Luk Van, 1976- editor.

Zenner, Eline, editor.

Series:

Contributions to the sociology of language ; 128

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language in families.

Physical Description:

228, 1 unnumbered pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm.

illustration

polychrome

monochrome

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2026.

Summary:

This volume revisits language and meaning-making in family life by stretching what counts as "family" and "language" in a deliberately expansive way. Across intergenerational, mobile, and mediated contexts, the chapters examine multilingual and multivarietal repertoires, speaking and signing, embodied interaction, and more-than-human participation (including pets and technologies). A central thread is that conceptual stretching has methodological consequences: issues of access, ethics, researcher positioning, and data-making become analytic matters rather than mere constraints. Taken together, the contributions suggest that family languaging is most productively studied when categories and methods remain open to revision in the face of practice.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783111419763

3111419762

OCLC:

1584641687

Publisher Number:

CIPO000419727