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“See, Your Grandma Has Two Mother Tongues…or Only One?”: Shame, Dialect, and Shifting Mother Tongues in Sicily

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
wiley   +1 more source

Sign Language as “Mother Tongue Orphan”: A Challenge to Raciolinguistic Multiculturalism in Singapore

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the contested status of “sign language” in Singapore by exploring deaf people's experiences of the “Mother Tongues”—the state's designation for the official languages of Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil—with a particular focus on the relationships that deaf Chinese Singaporeans have with Mandarin.
Timothy Y. Loh
wiley   +1 more source

This Language Is Mine: US College Students Navigating Contradictions of “Mother Tongue” and Heritage Language

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this essay, I draw on both autoethnography and ethnographic research among college students studying their Heritage Language (HL)—or Heritage Language Learners (HLLs)—at a US university. I explore the felt contradictions and tensions that get voiced when attempting to navigate the uneasy relationship between two terms: “mother tongue” and ...
Arnaaz Khwaja
wiley   +1 more source

Design and validation of a cross-cultural virtual exchange experience among bilingual medical students. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Med (Lausanne)
Vaile JR   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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