Abstract This article analyses language management strategies that are employed by Tonga parents towards the conservation of the Tonga language. Since Zimbabwe gained independence, Tonga, alongside a host of other previously designated minority languages has endured marginalisation in terms of use in public and official spaces, leading to language shift. In the presence of dominant endoglossic languages, Shona and Ndebele, within Tonga communities, Tonga speakers have found it difficult to maintain their language. In the context of family and societal bilingualism, parents, as the custodians of the home language are better placed to manage language use, for example, by encouraging and rewarding preferred language practices and sanctioning or punishing undesirable use. This study sought to understand some of the language management strategies that parents employ to promote the use of Tonga language at home. Deploying insights afforded by the language management approach, the reversing language shift theory and family language policy, the study reveals that Tonga parents have high impact beliefs regarding their potential to control their children’s linguistic behaviour in the home. These impact beliefs tend to inform parental language management strategies.

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“只在这里说汤加！”：津巴布韦汤加的家庭语言管理

摘要本文分析了汤加父母为保护汤加语言而采取的语言管理策略。自津巴布韦获得独立以来，汤加以及其他许多先前指定的少数民族语言在公共场所和官方场所的使用受到了边缘化，从而导致语言转移。在汤加社区中，存在着占主导地位的内分泌语言绍纳语和恩德贝莱语，汤加语使用者发现很难维持自己的语言。在家庭和社会双语制的背景下，父母（作为家庭语言的监护人）可以更好地管理语言使用，例如，通过鼓励和奖励偏爱的语言习惯，以及制裁或惩罚不受欢迎的使用。这项研究旨在了解父母为促进在家中使用汤加语言而采用的一些语言管理策略。运用语言管理方法，反向语言转换理论和家庭语言政策所提供的见解，该研究表明，汤加父母对于他们控制孩子在家中的语言行为的潜力具有很高的影响力信念。这些影响信念倾向于为父母语言管理策略提供信息。