Socialization as change in postcolonial contexts

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract While traditional studies of language socialization demonstrated how children reproduce cultural and linguistic practices, more recent scholarship emphasizes that languages change through children’s everyday play. Over the past twenty years, language socialization studies of multilingual communities have suggested that the target of a child’s emerging grammar is dynamic rather than static, because children interactively constitute languages and their boundaries through sequential social actions. This chapter examines children’s interactions in settings of postcolonial language contact, in order to demonstrate how code-mixing in everyday talk serves as a productive lens for examining the changes to a community’s language repertoire, including language shift, that accompany patterns of migration associated with histories of colonization. By integrating a review of recent scholarship on this topic with comparative case studies from two migrant Tibetan communities, the chapter asserts a vision of socialization as dynamic change to communicative ecologies rather than cultural reproduction.
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Authors Shannon Ward
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198873174.013.0030
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198873174.013.0030
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