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Language and the Family

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This volume revisits language and meaning-making in family life by stretching what counts as "family" and "language" in a deliberately expansive way. Across intergenerational, mobile and mediated c...
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  • 03 August 2026
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This volume revisits language and meaning-making in family life by stretching what counts as "family" and "language" in a deliberately expansive way. Across intergenerational, mobile and mediated contexts, the chapters examine multilingual and multivarietal repertoires, speaking and signing, embodied interaction, and more-than-human participation (including pets and technologies). A central thread is that conceptual stretching has methodological consequences: issues of access, ethics, researcher positioning and data-making become analytic matters rather than mere constraints. Taken together, the contributions suggest that family languaging is most productively studied when categories and methods remain open to revision in the face of practice.

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Price: $129.99
Pages: 230
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date: 03 August 2026
ISBN: 9783111419763
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Luk Van Mensel, XJTLU University, Suzhou, P.R. China; Eline Zenner, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.