Multilingual Families in a Digital Age: Mediational Repertoires and Transnational Practices

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Kristin Vold Lexander (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway) Jannis Androutsopoulos (University of Hamburg, Germany)

Multilingual Families in a Digital Age

Mediational Repertoires and Transnational Practices

Kristin Vold Lexander (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway), Jannis Androutsopoulos (University of Hamburg, Germany)

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Routledge
12 March 2025

Sociolinguistics; Bilingualism & multilingualism

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

This book offers new insights into transnational family life in today’s digital age, exploring the media resources and language practices parents and children employ toward maintaining social relationships in digital interactions and constructing transnational family bonds and identities.

The book seeks to expand the boundaries of existing research on family multilingualism, in which digital communication has been little studied until now. Drawing on ethnographic studies of four families of Senegalese background in Norway, Lexander and Androutsopoulos develop an integrated approach which weaves together participants’ linguistic choices for situated interaction, the affordances of digital technologies, and the families’ language and media ideologies. The book explores such key themes as the integration of linguistic and media resources in family repertoires, creative practices of digital translanguaging, engagement in diaspora practices, and opportunities of digital communication for the development of children's heritage language skills.

With an innovative perspective on ‘doing family’ in the digital age, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in multilingualism, sociolinguistics, digital communication, language and communication, and language and media.

By: Kristin Vold Lexander (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Norway), Jannis Androutsopoulos (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781032130279
ISBN 10: 103213027X
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 12 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kristin Vold Lexander, PhD, is a researcher at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, and a former postdoctoral fellow at MultiLing Center for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan, University of Oslo. She has worked on digital interaction in Senegalese contexts since 2005 and has published a range of articles and book chapters on the subject. Jannis Androutsopoulos, Dr. Phil., is Professor of German and Media Linguistics at Universität Hamburg, Germany, and from 2016 to 2023 was a research professor at MultiLing, University of Oslo. His research interests include the sociolinguistics of mediated communication and multilingualism online. He is editor of Polymedia in Interaction, Special Issue of Pragmatics and Society 12:5 (2021), and Digital language practices: media, awareness, pedagogy, Special Issue of Linguistics and Education 62 (2021).

Reviews for Multilingual Families in a Digital Age: Mediational Repertoires and Transnational Practices

""This book crackles with innovation and promises a new future in multilingual family communication research. Lexander and Androutsopoulos provide detailed discussions on how to document, analyze, and visualize the multilingual, multimodal repertoires of Senegalese diasporic family communication, highlighting digital communication as a “key enabler” of transnational family life."" - Lyn Wright, Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL, University of Memphis, USA ""This timely book provides a much-needed empirical study of language and media practices in transnational families. Using four Senegalese families in Norway as a case in point, the authors examine how these transnational families engage with a wide range of semiotic resources, including multiple languages and media platforms, in the act of ‘doing family.’ The book provides a new integrated theoretical perspective, mediational repertoire, to understand the interactional dynamics underlying family relationships. This book is a definite must-read for researchers, students, and practitioners who work with family, language and media in cross-disciplinary contexts."" - Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen, Professor of Applied Linguistics in Education, University of Bath, UK