Exploring Socio-Political Dimensions of Heritage Language Maintenance: The Case of Vietnamese Speakers in Montréal

IF 0.5 3区 文学 Q3 LINGUISTICS
Thao-Nguyen Nina Le, Pavel Trofimovich
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Abstract

Research on heritage language (HL) development often focuses on immigrants’ identity and social network as predictors of HL maintenance. However, an important and overlooked factor is the socio-political circumstances that trigger emigration, such as whether immigrants relocate due to economic hardship or political turmoil. This study examines if the pattern of HL maintenance and its association with immigrants’ ethnolinguistic identity and social engagement differ for families of political versus economic immigrants. Participants were 38 parent–child pairs from Montreal’s Vietnamese diaspora. The parents identified their reason for immigration and completed an ethnolinguistic questionnaire, their children provided a HL communication profile, and all participated in interviews. To determine participants’ Vietnamese speaking skills, short interview excerpts were rated for accentedness, comprehensibility, fluency, and global knowledge. Participants were generally successful at maintaining their HL, but there was a decline in the children’s Vietnamese, especially for the economic immigrants. Several ethnolinguistic variables (desire to preserve a HL, pride in heritage culture) and social network properties (network size, intimacy, communication-related stress) appeared to contribute to HL maintenance. However, these relationships were different (and sometimes opposite) in the groups of political versus economic immigrants, suggesting that HL development and maintenance are subject to various contextual influences.
文化遗产语言维护的社会-政治维度探讨:以蒙特里萨的越南语使用者为例
对遗产语言发展的研究往往侧重于移民身份和社会网络作为遗产语言维持的预测因素。然而,一个重要而被忽视的因素是触发移民的社会政治环境,例如移民是否由于经济困难或政治动荡而搬迁。本研究考察了政治移民家庭与经济移民家庭的HL维持模式及其与移民民族语言认同和社会参与的关系是否存在差异。参与者是来自蒙特利尔越南侨民的38对亲子。父母确定移民原因并填写民族语言问卷,子女提供HL沟通资料,所有人都参加了访谈。为了确定参与者的越南语口语技能,简短的采访摘录被评为口音,可理解性,流畅性和全球知识。参与者通常成功地保持了他们的HL,但孩子们的越南语水平有所下降,尤其是经济移民。几个民族语言变量(保存HL的愿望、对遗产文化的自豪感)和社会网络属性(网络规模、亲密关系、沟通相关压力)似乎有助于HL的维持。然而,这些关系在政治移民和经济移民群体中是不同的(有时是相反的),这表明HL的发展和维持受到各种背景的影响。
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期刊介绍: During the more than 60 years of its existence, The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes has evolved from an Ontario-centered journal containing mainly classroom-based teaching strategies and resources to a Canada-wide, bilingual, refereed scholarly publication of national scope and international repute. The CMLR/RCLV serves members of the teaching profession, administrators and researchers interested in all levels of English and French as second languages and, in addition, those interested in native and other modern, international, or heritage language programs and issues.
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