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Family Language Policy and Language Transmission in Times of Change

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Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation

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In this chapter Kendall King and Ling Wang view how the field of family language policy has evolved and expanded in recent decades against a background of significant social, economic and cultural change. They highlight in particular the role of overarching structural factors discussed elsewhere in the volume, including globalisation, urbanisation, (hyper)mobility and technological saturation, as well as important changes in the structures of families and the ways they now live their lives. These shifts have required changes both in the focus of studies in the field and the paradigms and methods used to conduct this research.

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This paper is supported by Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education, China (No. 17YJA740052).

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    Kendall A. King

  2. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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King, K.A., Wang, L. (2021). Family Language Policy and Language Transmission in Times of Change. In: Lewis, H., McLeod, W. (eds) Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation. Language and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80189-2_5

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