The complementary nature of linguistic mediation in transnational adoption mobility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11661684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Fiorentino (0000-0001-6784-1363, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 328-343 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Problems & Language Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-2690 • E-ISSN: 1569-9889 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/lplp.00026.fio |
| OpenAlex | W2810849239 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
In order to explore why people in multilingual contexts choose one mediation strategy or another, we conducted case studies involving short-term mobility for adoption purposes. For parents who adopt a child born in a different country, the experience necessitates a range of linguistic strategies that include language learning, interpreting and translation services, lingua francas, and intercomprehension. A study of ten Italian transnational adoptive families shows that adoptive parents tend to combine these strategies according to the situational relevance of four mobility-related variables: parental agency, accuracy of information, self-reliance, and intimacy. The adoptive parents’ opinions about the benefits and limitations of each strategy indicate that mediation strategies are complementary means to reach the complex general purpose of acquiring parenthood
Agency (philosophy · Business · Linguistics · Mediation · Order (exchange · Political science · Relevance (law · Situational ethics · Social science · Sociology · Language Development and Disorders · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Highly cited | No |
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