Heritage or cultural capital
Ideologies of language in Scottish Chinese family life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3011663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eona Bell (University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-52 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1683-478X • E-ISSN: 2168-4227 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1683478x.2013.773602 |
| OpenAlex | W2021417251 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 25 |
The purpose of this report is to discuss language ideologies and language management in relation to the themes of migration, aspiration and social class mobility of Scottish Chinese families. It draws on long-term participant-observation fieldwork in the city of Edinburgh to discuss the recent trend among Cantonese-speaking Chinese families to enroll their Scottish-born children in Mandarin language classes. The report draws on Grillo's work on language hierarchies to explore how much Scottish Chinese parents really value Chinese languages, and for what purpose. It concludes that language shift has not begun with the rise of China, or with the arrival since the 1990s of “new” migrants from mainland China to Europe. Rather, flexibility in language choice has been a characteristic of migrant life for many decades and a key element in the economic and educational achievements of Scottish Chinese families
China · Cultural capital · Ideology · Language ideology · Linguistics · Mainland · Mainland China · Mandarin Chinese · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Helping Out
Between Two Cultures
Language Management
Lives in Translation
Community Forces, Social Capital, and Educational Achievement
Contesting 'Language' as 'Heritage'
Diversity and Difference
The Chinese in Britain, 1800-Present
Meeting on the margins
Co-Ethnic Network, Social Class, and Heritage Language Maintenance Among Chinese Immigrant Families
Parents’ and teachers’ constructions of the purposes of Chinese complementary schooling
The Korean Language in America
Boring and stressful’ or ‘ideal’ learning spaces? Pupils’ constructions of teaching and learning in Chinese supplementary schools
Dominant Languages
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
Voices from the diaspora
Emigration and the Chinese Lineage
Heritage or cultural capital
"Chinese Educational Achievement and "Folk Theories of Success
New ethnic and national questions in Scotland
Claiming national identity
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |