In the Language of Their Hearts: Emotions and Language Choice in Child-Parent Interaction, Insights from a Yupik village
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In the Language of Their Hearts: Emotions and Language Choice in Child-Parent Interaction, Insights from a Yupik village. / Schwalbe, Daria Morgounova.
I: Etudes / Inuit / Studies, Bind 45, Nr. 1-2, 2022, s. 177-205.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - In the Language of Their Hearts:
T2 - Emotions and Language Choice in Child-Parent Interaction, Insights from a Yupik village
AU - Schwalbe, Daria Morgounova
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In studies of language choice and minority language shift and maintenance, attention is frequently given to factors other than emotions: social context of contact, language politics, linguistic competence and attitudes, educational policies, and political agendas in a society. Yet human language is ideologically saturated, aesthetically experienced empirical phenomena, characterized by complex dynamics and linked to group and personal identities, morality, aesthetics, and epistemology. While negative moral emotions (e.g., shame) may lead people to abandon their first language, heritage languages may still be perceived as “more emotional,” and their loss and maintenance is a deeply emotional matter. Drawing on Pavlenko, Cavanaugh, and Ahmed, I discuss the role of emotion-related factors—affective repertoires and perceived language emotionality—in language choice of native Chukotkan parents, as a way of understanding human interactivity and the potential of the local environment for children’s acquisition of their heritage languages. Perceived language emotionality, I argue, is an important yet often overlooked aspect of heritage language sustainability and learning. The focus of this article is not on how bodies are transformed into objects of emotions (e.g., “the shamed one”), but on interplay between emotions and multilingual phenomena: how language and wordings are used to move people, to produce affects, attachments, equalities, and authenticities.
AB - In studies of language choice and minority language shift and maintenance, attention is frequently given to factors other than emotions: social context of contact, language politics, linguistic competence and attitudes, educational policies, and political agendas in a society. Yet human language is ideologically saturated, aesthetically experienced empirical phenomena, characterized by complex dynamics and linked to group and personal identities, morality, aesthetics, and epistemology. While negative moral emotions (e.g., shame) may lead people to abandon their first language, heritage languages may still be perceived as “more emotional,” and their loss and maintenance is a deeply emotional matter. Drawing on Pavlenko, Cavanaugh, and Ahmed, I discuss the role of emotion-related factors—affective repertoires and perceived language emotionality—in language choice of native Chukotkan parents, as a way of understanding human interactivity and the potential of the local environment for children’s acquisition of their heritage languages. Perceived language emotionality, I argue, is an important yet often overlooked aspect of heritage language sustainability and learning. The focus of this article is not on how bodies are transformed into objects of emotions (e.g., “the shamed one”), but on interplay between emotions and multilingual phenomena: how language and wordings are used to move people, to produce affects, attachments, equalities, and authenticities.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - inuit
KW - language and emotions
KW - emotionality
KW - affect/emotion
KW - yupik
KW - language learning
KW - heritage language
KW - indigenous peoples
KW - Codeswitching
KW - language mixing
KW - multilingualism
KW - language maintenance
KW - shame
KW - guilt
KW - Russia
KW - inuit emotions
KW - stigmatisation
KW - human interactivity
KW - situated interaction
KW - parent-child interaction
KW - Traditional knowledge and practices
U2 - 10.7202/1090315ar
DO - 10.7202/1090315ar
M3 - Journal article
VL - 45
SP - 177
EP - 205
JO - Etudes / Inuit / Studies
JF - Etudes / Inuit / Studies
SN - 0701-1008
IS - 1-2
ER -
ID: 305122422