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
6 - Seeing through Children’s Eyes
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 6 portrays two adolescent speakers of Chinese as a heritage language and their respective families. Drawing upon interview data as well as face-to-face conversational data in everyday interactions, it situates the adolescents’ attitude toward the Chinese language in the contexts of talking about their respective families in terms of values, behavioral patterns, and accents, talking for their families as they interpret and translate from Chinese to English for their parents and polish their parents’ English in everyday social encounters, and talking with their families in digital communication across three generations. It explores second-generation immigrant children’s perceptions of their parents’ attitudes toward child rearing, college preparation, and career choices. It also investigates the impact of the parents’ triumphs and challenges in their immigration experience on the children’s language choices.
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- Voices of ImmigrationA Serial Narrative Ethnography of Language Shift, pp. 116 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025