Book contents
- Voices of Immigration
- Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
- Voices of Immigration
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Preface
- Transcription Symbols
- 1 Language, Heritage, and Change
- 2 Coming to the Beautiful Country
- 3 Raising Children
- 4 Speaking the School Language
- 5 Chinese Language School
- 6 Seeing through Children’s Eyes
- 7 Facing Race
- 8 A Tangled Tale
- References
- Index
3 - Raising Children
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2024
- Voices of Immigration
- Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
- Voices of Immigration
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Preface
- Transcription Symbols
- 1 Language, Heritage, and Change
- 2 Coming to the Beautiful Country
- 3 Raising Children
- 4 Speaking the School Language
- 5 Chinese Language School
- 6 Seeing through Children’s Eyes
- 7 Facing Race
- 8 A Tangled Tale
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 presents a grandmother’s perspective on child rearing and cultural values in the household of two second-generation Chinese immigrant children. It explores the distribution of childcare responsibilities across generations, the values imparted to and instilled in the children, and the management of caring and teaching across languages at home. Drawing upon both narratives and recorded and transcribed interactions, it examines the family’s use of both Chinese and English during a range of recurrent speech events, such as having dinner, reading stories before bed, and doing homework after school.
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- Voices of ImmigrationA Serial Narrative Ethnography of Language Shift, pp. 43 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025