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Language transmission among Arabo-Turkish migrant families in France

Suat Istanbullu
Isabelle Léglise

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Quantitative studies on migrant languages in France show that, due to an aggressive linguistic policy towards integration, a language shift phenomenon to French is generally completed within 3 generations (Héran et al. 2002). Contrary to this tendency, few studies, such as Barontini (2013) show the knowledge of Arabic, Berber, Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic among families with a North African descent. Previous literature on language transmission among migrant families in Europe focuses mainly on the transmission of one so-called heritage language vs. the official language of the host country (Deprez, 1994, Akinci et al., 2004, de Ruiter 2008, Haque 2010). On the other hand, the acquisition by speakers of the majority language of some knowledge of immigrant languages has been well documented in Great Britain (Hewitt 1986, Rampton 2005) and Germany (Dirim and Auer 2004) and discussed as a possibly phenomenon of crossing. Families from Turkey were considered in the late 1990 as the last arrived community in France (Akinci 1996); this “new migration wave” only begun in the 1970’s and represented around 250 000 people in 1996 and 450 000 in 2008 (INSEE 2012). The families we are working with come from the South of Turkey where they already were in a situation of language shift between Arabic and Turkish (Smith-Kocamanhul 2003). Considering the numeric importance of Arabic language in France (4 millions of speakers), we would like to rethink the first language shift situation towards Turkish and show how it may turn towards French and some other minority languages. We would also like to question linguistic ideologies among these families in the light of their mobility through various European cities. The superdiversity (Vertovec 2007) that follows from the increase of mobility within populations (Appadurai 1996) encourages us to follow a multi-sited ethnographic approach (Marcus 1995, Hannertz 2003, Fitzgerald 2006). Our study is based on a qualitative observation of language transmission and identity construction among these families. In this paper, after presenting some context and methodology, we will focus on the multilingual linguistic practices, language ideology and identity construction of second and third generations (the first generations being born in France). We will show various conflicts actually at stage among the third generation and the development of new speakers (O’Rourke) of Arabic and Turkish. Migration, intergenerational language transmission, superdiversity, language shift, language and identity
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Suat Istanbullu, Isabelle Léglise. Language transmission among Arabo-Turkish migrant families in France. The First International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration, Organization: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures of the University of Turin (Italy), Sep 2014, Rapallo, Italy. ⟨hal-01501671⟩

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