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Perceiving in networking interactions: emblems, indexicality, and their mapping through reflexivity 网络互动中的感知:符号、索引性及其反身性映射

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2022-0101

Jacqueline Militello

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Frontmatter 头版头条

2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2023-frontmatter2

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Authorities at play in Indigenous language reclamation: tensions and possibilities in the Yucatan Peninsula 当局在原住民语言回收中发挥作用:尤卡坦半岛的紧张局势和可能性

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-24 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2022-0091

Aldo Anzures, Frances Kvietok

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Seeking understanding: categories of linguistic (non)belonging in interviews 寻求理解:访谈中语言(非)归属的范畴

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-11 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2022-0049

Kaarina Hippi, Liisa Lehto

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“I’ll be there for you”: affective production of a “hyper-real” cultural-consumption space “我会在你身边”:一个“超真实”的文化消费空间的情感生产

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-04 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2022-0080

Yang Song

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What exactly does an editor do? 编辑到底是做什么的?

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2022-10-11 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2022-0125

I. Piller

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Language proficiency and use of interpreters/translators in fieldwork: a survey of US-based anthropologists and sociologists 野外工作中的语言能力和口译/笔译员的使用:美国人类学家和社会学家的调查

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2022-10-11 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2022-0071

Katarzyna Sepielak, Dawid Wladyka, William Yaworsky

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Children’s use of English as lingua franca in Swedish preschools 瑞典学龄前儿童使用英语作为通用语的研究

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-26 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2022-0062

Karolina Larsson, Polly Björk-Willén, Katarina Haraldsson, K. Hansson

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Translation for language revitalisation: efforts and challenges in documenting botanical knowledge of Thailand’s Northern Khmer speakers 语言复兴的翻译:记录泰国北高棉人植物学知识的努力和挑战

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-21 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2022-0040

Narongdej Phanthaphoommee, Siripen Ungsitipoonporn

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Hesitant versus confident family language policy: a case of two single-parent families in Finland 犹豫与自信的家庭语言政策:芬兰两个单亲家庭的案例

IF 2.3 2区文学

Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2022-09-19 DOI: 10.1515/multi-2022-0055

Polina Vorobeva

{"title":"Hesitant versus confident family language policy: a case of two single-parent families in Finland","authors":"Polina Vorobeva","doi":"10.1515/multi-2022-0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2022-0055","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract During the past decade, the field of family language policy has broadened its scope and turned its attention to diverse family configurations in versatile sociolinguistic contexts. The current study contributes to this endeavor by focusing on two single-parent families who live in Finland and who strive to support Russian as a family language. Applying nexus analysis as an epistemological stance and as an analytical lens, the study takes an emic perspective on family language policy. Furthermore, it examines how family language policy is manifested and negotiated during mother–child play and what discourses shape it. The findings reveal two contrasting ways in which family language policy is manifested and negotiated in the families. Confident family language policy in one of the families is informed by the mother’s historical body (i.e., prior experience of raising children bilingually), while in the other family, discourse in place represented by divergent language ideologies plays a significant role in shaping family language policy and is connected with hesitant decisions about language use in the family.","PeriodicalId":46413,"journal":{"name":"Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication","volume":"68 1","pages":"589 - 619"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91364093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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