Language, Diaspora, Home

Identity and Women’s Linguistic Space-Making

Heather Robinson

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Routledge
28 November 2024

Sociolinguistics; Research methods: general; Social & cultural anthropology; International relations

Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology

This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gate-keepers of family languages towards creating a sense of home.

The volume features an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on work from narrative, storytelling, literary studies, and linguistic anthropology, as well as interviews with multiple generations of immigrant families, to reflect on the ways these families foster a sense of home and maintain connections to their homelands through language. Robinson showcases the voices of a diverse range of families to examine the choices women in immigrant families make between the use of family languages, dominant community languages, or a mix of the two. The volume enhances our understanding of the ways in which immigrants navigate the linguistic landscapes of home and community amid migration and diaspora.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, language and gender, and language and migration.

By: Heather Robinson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781032328782
ISBN 10: 1032328789
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 28 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Heather Robinson is Professor of English at York College/City University of New York. She is the lead co-author of Translingual Identities and Transnational Realities in the U.S. College Classroom (Routledge, 2020) as well as various journal articles and book chapters that have appeared in such varied venues such as Women’s Writing, American Speech, Administrative Theory and Praxis, and Creole Composition: Academic Writing and Rhetoric in the Anglophone Caribbean (2019).