Family Language Policy: A Multi-level Investigation of Multilingual Practices in Transnational Families

这项拟议的研究旨在探讨什么类型的家庭语言政策（FLP）存在于英国在国家一级，如何FLP的形状，建立和实施在社区一级，以及什么样的做法是管理和如何在家庭一级进行谈判。我们将FLP定义为与家庭领域和家庭成员之间的语言选择和识字实践有关的显性和隐性语言规划。该项目采用了多层次、多社区和多类型的家庭设计，涉及三个民族语言社区-中国、波兰和索马里的非跨国和跨国家庭。研究FLP的“多”方法将使我们的研究前沿，及时，创新和跨学科。基于语言社会化，扫盲研究，语言政策和移民的研究，多学科方法将使我们能够扩展和挑战现有的概念工具，以研究语言维护，多语制和社会凝聚力。作为英国第一个系统研究FLP的项目，它将为我们提供理解FLP决策过程的深度和广度。FLP从三个相互关联的方面解决儿童的多语言发展问题：语言意识形态，语言实践和语言管理。通过比较透镜，本项目将揭示与社会文化变化有关的FLP的异同，三个散居社区的语言发展和移民历史。为了了解FLP如何嵌入到更广泛的社会政治背景中，我们的目标是：1）研究流动性和社会文化背景的持续变化如何影响家庭语言政策;2）了解FLP是如何在日常互动和数字实践中形成，建立和制定的;3）确定FLP在三个跨国社区中的相似性和差异;4）通过将FLP定位为一个调查领域来产生新的知识; 5）研究FLP的发展。5）向国家、教育、社区和家庭等不同级别的决策者介绍家庭学习计划的作用。该研究采用多层次设计和跨学科方法，以了解实际的语言实践和代际语言传播的决策过程，在国家一级，将向所有类型的有多语言经历的家庭分发一份调查。这些数据将产生急需的信息，在目前的英国多语制的角度变化。在社区一级，将通过焦点小组访谈和活动调查建立社区概况。此外，还将进行一项家庭语言审计调查，以了解家庭语言伙伴关系的“谁、什么、为什么和如何”。在家庭层面，将在每个社区的6-8个家庭中开展民族志实地工作，以收集“现场”事件、访谈和数字通信的录音。我们选择中国人、波兰人和索马里人社区，因为他们代表了三个不同的语言和社会政治群体--亚洲人、欧洲人和非洲人，他们有着不同的移民历史和文化宗教习俗。让不同类型的家庭参与进来是必要的，因为这些族裔语言社区的移徙往往涉及大家庭的成员，他们是文化和语言社会化的关键因素。家庭和社区的概况将使私人领域和公共领域之间的关系变得清晰可见，并揭示家庭在社会压力、教育需求和文化语言连续性愿望之间的冲突。我们使用“回顾”和“展望”的方法来确定FLP的关键要素。这些决定性的见解将使各级决策者了解FLP在多语言发展、社会凝聚力和儿童福祉方面的作用。

This proposed study aims to explore what types of Family Language Policy (FLP) exist in the UK at the national level, how FLP is shaped, established, and implemented at the community level, and what practices are managed and how they are negotiated at the family level. We define FLP as both explicit and implicit language planning in relation to language choice and literacy practices within home domains and among family members. The project employs a MULTI-LEVEL, MULTI-COMMUNITY, and MULTI-TYPE family design and involves non-transnational and transnational families across three ethnolinguistic communities - Chinese, Polish and Somali. The 'multi'-approaches to studying FLP will make our research cutting edge, timely, innovative and interdisciplinary. Building on studies from language socialisation, literacy studies, language policy and migration, the multi-interdisciplinary approach will enable us to extend and challenge the existing conceptual tools to study language maintenance, multilingualism and social cohesion. As the first systematic study of FLP in the UK, it will provide us with both depth and breadth to understand the decision-making processes of FLP.FLP addresses children's multilingual development in three interrelated aspects: language ideology, language practices and language management.Through a comparative lens, this project will reveal the similarities and differences of FLP in relation to sociocultural changes, linguistic development and migration history in three diasporic communities. To understand how FLP is embedded in the broader sociopolitical context, we aim to:1)Examine how mobility and on-going changes in sociocultural contexts impact on family language policies;2)Understand how FLP is shaped, established and enacted in day-to-day interactional and digital practices;3)Identify similarities and differences in FLP across three transnational communities;4)Generate new knowledge by locating FLP as a field of inquiry;5)Inform policy makers at different levels - national, educational, community and family - about the role of FLP. The study employs a multi-level design and an interdisciplinary approach to understand the actual language practices and the decision-making processes of intergenerational language transmission.At the national level, a survey will be distributed to all types of families with multilingual experiences. The data will yield much needed information on changes of perspective about multilingualism in the current UK. At the community level, community profiles will be constructed through focus group interviews and an event survey. A family language audit survey will also be conducted to map the 'who, what, why and how' of FLP. At the family level, ethnographic fieldwork will be carried out in 6-8 families in each community to collect audio recordings of 'live' events, interviews, and digital communications. The data will capture ideological positions, FLP dimensions and critical moments of parental decisions.We choose Chinese, Polish and Somali communities because they represent three distinguished linguistic and sociopolitical groups - Asian, European and African, with different migration histories and cultural-religious practices. Involving different types of families is necessary because migration in these ethnolinguistic communities often involves members of extended family who are key agents in cultural and linguistic socialization. The profiles of the families and communities will make visible the relationships between private domains and the public sphere and reveal the conflicts that families negotiate between the realities of social pressure, education demands, and the desire for cultural-linguistic continuity. We use 'looking back' and 'looking forward' methods to identify the critical elements of FLP. These decisive insights will inform policy makers at different levels of the role of FLP in multilingual development, social cohesion and children's wellbeing.