Translating Childhoods : Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture.
Title:
Translating Childhoods : Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture.
Author:
Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich.
ISBN:
9780813548630
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (200 pages)
Series:
Series in Childhood Studies
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Translating Frames -- Chapter 2: Landscapes of Childhood -- Chapter 3: Home Work -- Chapter 4: Public Para-Phrasing -- Chapter 5: Transculturations -- Chapter 6: Transformations -- Chapter 7: Translating Childhoods -- Appendix A: Learning from Children -- Appendix B: Transcription Conventions -- Appendix C: Domains of Language Brokering -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, explores the "work" children perform as language and culture brokers. Children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means beÃÂ the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. From ethnographic data and research, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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