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By John Macalister,Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi

Through case reviews from around the globe, this booklet illustrates the possibilities and demanding situations dealing with households negotiating the problems of language upkeep and language studying in the house. each relatives residing in a bi/multilingual atmosphere faces the query of what language(s) to talk with their young children and needs to decide, consciously or in a different way, approximately those concerns. Exploring hyperlinks among language coverage in the house and wider society in various varied settings, the members make the most of a number of examine instruments, together with interviews, questionnaires, observations, and archival rfile research, to discover linguistic ideologies and practices of kinfolk in the house, illuminating how those are formed through macro-level societal techniques.

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