Unintended language maintenance
The English Congregation of a Baptist Chinese church in Western Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4179418 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Huamei Han (Simon Fraser University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 2013 |
| Issue | 222 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl-2013-0034 |
| OpenAlex | W2334339251 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Based on a seventeen-month ethnography in a Baptist Chinese church in Western Canada, this article examines how the establishment of an English congregation for youth in response to language shift in fact facilitated minority language maintenance. Drawing on two ideologies of bi-/multilingualism, I illustrate that, even though perceived as “the second generation who don't understand Chinese”, young members were multilinguals with varying degrees of dominance and fluency in Chinese. I further argue that the English Congregation constituted an important space for the socialization of youth with peers and/or adults where Chinese could be used and thus learned, although engagement with the language might differ between individuals and indeed across various stages of their lives. Implications for language maintenance research are discussed
Ethnography · Fluency · Ideology · Language ideology · Language shift · Linguistics · Minority language · Multilingualism · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.62 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |