posted on 2017-12-03, 19:59authored byJulieta Murata Missagh
Paper presented at ITML3 http://latllab.canterbury.ac.nz/intergenerational-transmission-japanese-argentina/
Intergenerational transmission of Japanese in Argentina
Migration
movements are the driving force behind language contact situations,
which in turn may produce a change in linguistic behavior, oftentimes
towards language shift. In point, the intergenerational transmission of
language offers itself as a critical aspect in the ethnolinguistic
vitality of immigrant languages. As Haque (2010) suggests, language
transmission and language practices are often subjected to issues
related to national, family and local language(s) policies. This
communication presents a number of aspects affecting the
intergenerational transmission of Japanese as an immigrant language in
Argentina, namely the role of family language planning, language
ideologies in the host country and educational language policies.
Following Onaha (2012), a distinction is made between Pre-war and
Post-war period in the history of the community, WW2 being a crucial
event as from permanent settling in South America became the norm and,
with it, a relative loosening of the immigrant language transmission
practices. Through sociolinguistic and ethnographic research, an outline
of the results of in-depth interviews, and archive resources consulting
is offered.