Maintenance, identity and social inclusion narratives of an Afrikaans speaker living in New Zealand

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3164201
AutoresGary Barkhuizen (0000-0003-3192-9245, University of Auckland, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume2013
Fascículo222
Data de publicação2013-01-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl-2013-0033
OpenAlexW2329790949
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas25

This article reports on a narrative study which explored the language maintenance and the related identity experiences of an Afrikaans-speaking migrant from South Africa who has lived in New Zealand since 2001. The article tells his Afrikaans maintenance story, focusing particularly on identity and language use, as constructed during a series of three narrative interviews conducted over a period of six years. It is informed by recent discussions of social inclusion in the field of migration and sociolinguistics. A thematic analysis of big story data and a positioning analysis of a small story show that the migrant was successful at maintaining Afrikaans and achieving social inclusion within his social networks. However, based on the analyses, the article also suggests that the ways social inclusion interacts with language maintenance and the construction of self are dynamic and complex in migrant contexts

Aesthetics · Art · Linguistics · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Qualitative research · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Gender Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching