"The older I got, it wasn't a problem for me anymore": Language brokering as a managed activity and a narrated experience among young Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

"The older I got, it wasn't a problem for me anymore": Language brokering as a managed activity and a narrated experience among young Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Language brokering (LB) practices are a widespread phenomenon in transnational communities. This paper aims to add to the description and analysis of these practices within a community which has not been extensively studied - the Vietnamese in the Czech Republic, as well as show how LB is embedded in other sociolinguistic aspects of community life. Based on language biographies of 13 Vietnamese female brokers, we explore LB by focusing on the respondents&apos; descriptions and summaries of their beginnings with it, the difficulties that occurred, and how they were overcome. The findings suggest that, among others, the brokers gradually perceive brokering as a normal practice and as one of their family responsibilities. A methodological innovation is the use of Language Management Theory (Nekvapil, Jiří &amp; Tamah Sherman. 2015. An introduction: Language Management Theory in Language Policy and Planning. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 232. 1-12.), through which we examine language brokering as a practice oriented toward language problems stemming from broader communication and sociocultural problems. This perspective, along with attention devoted to the activities, approaches and attitudes of all participants in the brokering (e. g. parents, public officials) enables us to demonstrate the relationship of the brokering to family language policy and also the fact that, for the brokers, the sociocultural dimension of LB can be more important than the linguistic one.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-02509S" target="_blank" >GA14-02509S: Czech-Vietnamese interaction in educational settings and its reflection by Vietnamese speakers</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Multilingua

ISSN

1613-3684

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

29

Pages from-to

1-29

UT code for WoS article

000396044000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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