ABSTRACT

This article scrutinizes the concept of “success” in family language policy (henceforth FLP). Situated in three large-scale ethnographic projects, we center on the lived experiences of a parent in three families negotiating a pro-minority language FLP. These parents’ experiences are embedded in different sociopolitical contexts: an immigrant context (Turkish in the Netherlands); an autochthonous minority language context (Gaelic in Scotland); and an officially bilingual state (Swedish in Finland). As two of the parents are “new” speakers of the minority language, our analysis centers in part on how “legitimacy” poses both challenges and opportunities to their successful pro-minority language FLP. We conclude by advocating for a more holistic and family-based approach to gauging the “success” of individual FLPs, rather than relying on the child’s linguistic output as the main means of determining whether or not an FLP is “successful.”

摘要

本文详细介绍了家庭语言政策中的“成功”概念（此后称为FLP）。位于三个大型民族志项目中，我们以三个家庭的父母亲亲少数族裔语言FLP谈判的生活经历为中心。这些父母的经历被嵌入不同的社会政治环境中：移民环境（荷兰的土耳其）；土生土长的少数民族语言环境（苏格兰盖尔语）；和正式的双语国家（芬兰的瑞典）。由于其中有两个父母是少数群体语言的“新”讲者，因此我们的分析部分集中于“合法性”如何给成功的少数族裔语言FLP带来挑战和机遇。最后，我们提倡采用一种更为整体和基于家庭的方法来衡量单个FLP的“成功”，