The linguistic behaviours that appear among the foreign nationals abroad
Jae Park ,you mean diaglossia
A load of thanks to draw my attention to it
You absolutely should look at code-switching and the triggers for that; you should definitely make sure that you cope with bilingualism; and i would highly recommend that you look at context-induced identity
Simple but effective.
1. Teach them to speak slowly. They start getting excited or thinking they sound good so they speak fast like a native and murder the pronunciation ( just like i do when I speak Vietnamese
2. Concentrate on the last letter pronunciation to each word this focuses them on the whole word.
3. Teach them tongue twisters to create both muscle memory for pronunciation and permission to make mistakes, laugh together, bond, relax and enjoy learning.
This may sound low tech but many years of teaching has taught me these 3 basics create faster learning.
Dear Hadjer,
Perhaps my first answer was too intuitive and quick. If you check my list of collaborative publications on diaspora-sociolinguistics, you will see that my perspective is more sociological than linguistics. I like conflict theories, in particular those related to cultural dimension. Hence, cultural relativism is important for me.
The suggestions by Skilton and Ladd are perhaps more relevant to your study, which seems to be focused on behaviours.
I would recommend a classic in sociolinguistics from which you could draw issues related to linguistic behaviours:
Holmes, J. (2008). An introduction to sociolinguistics (3rd ed.). Harlow, England ; New York: Pearson Longman.
Good thinking otherwise check the work of Geert Hofstede and Fons Trompinaars on sociocultural differences for dealing with diaspora.
One should definitely get acquainted with Jan Blommaert and his theory of "superdiversity" and "polylanguaging"!
Good suggestions, all of these. You might want to add language loss/ language attrition and shift of language within the family.
Hajar:
Variables:
Diaspora dialect
religion
Social class among them
L1 of the country where they live
according to me we add like sociolinguistics variables:
- the socioculcuture (identity)
- linguistic's insecurity of diaspora speaker
- the subjectivity
you can look for M. Dassi : (LINGUISTIQUE, Identité, Normativité et Ouverture, Lincom europa, 2010)
Hi Hadjer,
even though it does not deal with the sociolinguistics of diaspora specifically, you can have a look at the final pages of the following article:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281714103_You_wanna_piece_o%27_me_A_longitudinal_sociolinguistic_survey_on_cultural_and_linguistic_representations_of_Italian-Americans
You'll find a drawn-out and step-by-step discussion of how to design a sociolinguistic survey with all the possible variables.
I hope it is of interest,
Maria
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Thank you all for your useful handy answers ,,,I really appreciate it
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