An increasingly important field of research within multilingualism and sociolinguistics, Family Language Policy (FLP) investigates the explicit and overt planning of language use within the home and among family members. However the diverse range of different family units and contexts around the globe necessitates a similarly diverse range of research perspectives which are not yet represented within the field. Tackling this problem head on, this volume expands the scope of families in FLP research. Bringing together contributors and case studies from every continent, this essential reference broadens lines of inquiry by investigating language practices and ideologies in previously under-researched families. Seeking to better reflect contemporary influences on FLP processes, chapters use innovative methodologies, including digital ethnographies and autoethnography, to explore diverse family configurations (adoptive, LGBTQ+, and single parent), modalities (digital communication and signed languages), and speakers and contexts (adult learners, Indigenous contexts, and new speakers). Bringing to light the dynamic, fluid nature of family and kinship as well as the important role that multilingualism plays in family members’ negotiation of power, agency, and identity construction, Diversifying Family Language Policy is a state-of-the-art reference to contemporary theoretical, methodological and ethical advances in the field of family language policy.

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List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Diversifying Family Language Policy, Christina Higgins (University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA) and Lyn Wright (University of Memphis, USA) Part I: Diverse Families 2. The Discursive Functions of Kinship Terms in Family Conversation, Lyn Wright (University of Memphis, USA) 3. Family Language Practices of a New Zealand Adoptive Family, Mohammed Nofal and Corinne A. Seals (Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 4. Making a Family: Language Ideologies and Practices in a Multilingual LGBTQ+ Family with Adopted Children, Kinga Kozminska (University of Oxford, UK and Birkbeck College, UK) and Zhu Hua (University of Birmingham, UK) 5. “When Kirogi Speaks Two Languages Perfectly”: Language Policies and Practices in Korean Diasporic Families, Hakyoon Lee (Georgia State University, USA) 6. The Formation of 'Ohana in Hawaiian Language Revitalization, Christina Higgins (University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA) Part II: Diverse Modalities 7. This is the Normal For Us: Managing the Mobile, Multilingual, Digital Family, Åsa Palviainen (University of Jyvåskylå, Finland) 8. Managing Language Shift through Multimodality: Somali Families in London, Sahra Abdullahi and Li Wei (University College London, UK) 9. Researching Family Language Policy in Multilingual Deaf-Hearing Families: Using Autoethnographic, Visual and Narrative Methods, Maartje De Meulder (University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands and Heriot-Watt University, UK), Annelies Kusters (Heriot-Watt University, UK) and Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University UK) Part III: Diverse Speakers and Contexts 10. Family Language Policy and Language Maintenance among Turkmen-Persian Bilingual Families in Iran, Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi (University of Oslo, Norway), Mojtaba Rajabi (Gonbad Kavous University, Iran) and Khadijeh Aghaei (Gonbad Kavous University, Iran) 11. Family as a System: Values and Ideologies behind Family Language Policies of Diverse Arabic-Speaking Multilingual Families, Fatma F.S. Said (Zayed University, UAE and University of York, UK) 12. “I Want to Maximize the Benefit for My Children”: Marriage Migrant Families’ Strategic Family Language Policy and Practice in South Korea, Bong-gi Sohn (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 13. Coloniality and Family Language Policy in an African Multilingual Family, Carolyn McKinney and Babalwayashe Molate (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 14. Beyond Success and Failure: Intergenerational Language Transmission from within Indigenous Families in Southern Chile, Marco Espinoza (University of Melbourne, Australia and University of Chile, Chile) and Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Melbourne, Australia) 15. Foundational Questions: Examining the Implications of Diverse Families, Modalities, Speakers, and Contexts for our Understandings of Family, Language, and Policy, Aurolyn Luykx (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) Index