Migration and diaspora
Karatsareas, P. Forthcoming. Migration and diaspora. in: Chapelle, C. A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics Wiley.
Karatsareas, P. Forthcoming. Migration and diaspora. in: Chapelle, C. A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics Wiley.
Chapter title | Migration and diaspora |
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Authors | Karatsareas, P. |
Editors | Chapelle, C. A. |
Abstract | As migrants settle in new host societies, they engage in social, linguistic, and cultural practices that relate to both their historical homelands and their new homes, forming communities that are often referred to as diasporas. Two major epistemological trends are noted: positivist approaches, viewing diasporas as bounded entities, and social constructivist approaches, seeing them as processes and practices. Language plays a crucial role in constructing, projecting, and maintaining diasporic communities. This entry examines how migration affects the maintenance of migrants’ heritage languages, the effect that host society languages have on the lexicon and structure of heritage languages, initiatives like complementary schools to preserve migrant languages and cultures, and ways in which migrant multilingualism can be measured and quantified. These are offered as examples of different epistemological and methodological approaches to the study of the language and migration nexus: (a) psycholinguistic and variationist sociolinguistic approaches that use quantitative methods to study heritage language acquisition and innovations in heritage languages; and, (b) social constructivist approaches that employ qualitative methods to explore how language shapes migrants’ experiences and their identities. |
Keywords | multilingualism |
language maintenance and shift | |
ethnolinguistic vitality | |
community languages | |
heritage speakers | |
complementary schools | |
supplementary schools | |
language census | |
Book title | The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics |
Publisher | Wiley |
Edition | 2 |
File | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |