The this study will analyze the discursive rules for language negotiating in a multilingual home. Seeing as research on language negotiation within multilingual groups has never been researched in terms of domestic contexts, this research aims to add to the discussion that has been mostly concerned with business situations.
Detailed statement of your research question
What are the features of discursive rules between members of a family in which there are at least two languages being spoken [Portuguese and English primarily]?
List of the information you need to gather
More research needs to be done on the theory others have on how language negotiations generally work. Furthermore, more information about the methodology generally used by others looking into the same topic bearing in mind that it may or may not be appropriate for a domestic discourse analysis project.
A preliminary list of sources
+ Language negotiation in multilingual learning environments
Mariana Bono and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer
+Multilingual organizations as ‘linguascapes’: Negotiating the position
of English through discursive practices§
Chris Steyaert *, Anja Ostendorp, Claudine Gaibrois
+ Multilingual dynamics among Portuguese-based migrant contexts
in Europe
Maria Clara Keatinga,
*, Olga Solovova b,1
Plan for gathering your information that includes:
- who/what you will be studying (for example:. students in a College Composition class, how they think about the comments teachers write on their papers)
The participants for this study will be members of my own family, which would include a mother, a father, brother, and two sisters. The father speaks Portuguese and has limited English proficiency; the mother is fluent in in Portuguese and proficient in English and Spanish, and speaks some French as well; the eldest sister is fluent in English and Portuguese, proficient in Spanish and French, and have limited proficiency in Japanese; the brother and youngest sister are fluent in English and the youngest sister has better language profienceny in Portuguese than the brother. The household was chosen because they predominantly speak two languages within the household.
- where you will collect your information (for example:. in interviews at Kean University)
The information will be collected in two group recordings.
- how many subjects you will study (for example:. 3)
5 including myself
- what methods you will use to conduct your study (for example:. interviews, textual analysis, discourse analysis)
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