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Language and the Family: Stretching Concepts, Challenging Methods

Language and the Family: Stretching Concepts, Challenging Methods

Van Mensel, Luk
Zenner, Eline

Hardcover

Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [Csl], Book 128

General ReferenceLinguisticsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3111419762
ISBN13: 9783111419763
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Sep 21 2026
Pages: 235
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume revisits language and meaning-making in family life by stretching what counts as family and language in a deliberately expansive way. Across intergenerational, mobile, and mediated contexts, the chapters examine multilingual and multivarietal repertoires, speaking and signing, embodied interaction, and more-than-human participation (including pets and technologies). A central thread is that conceptual stretching has methodological consequences: issues of access, ethics, researcher positioning, and data-making become analytic matters rather than mere constraints. Taken together, the contributions suggest that family languaging is most productively studied when categories and methods remain open to revision in the face of practice.

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