Monolingual mothers in plurilingual families

Abstract

In this paper we show how mothers socialized in a monolingual paradigm based, relatively homogenous society develop multilingual awareness and how they form adequate discourse concepts.

Keywords

• monolingualism
• plurilingualism
• sociolinguistic landscape
• metalinguistic discourse
• scale
• awareness
• narrative strategies
• biographical interview
• ethnotheories
• language acquisition
• language development