Using correspondence analysis to model immigrant multilingualism over time
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Robert W. Schrauf
Abstract
The notion of immigrant and linguistic superdiversity privileges the multidimensional nature of multilingualism and requires analytic models that attend to the bidirectional interaction of many social and psychological variables. In this chapter I cast multilingualism as an interactive field of language proficiency and language practices, and I propose the use of multiple correspondence analysis (Greenacre 2007) and geometric data analysis (LeRoux & Rouanet 2004) as means for visualizing and analyzing this field. Further, I examine the literature on longitudinal multiple correspondence analysis to suggest ways of modeling the development of language proficiency and the expansion of domains of language use over time. Data are taken from a study of Puerto Rican bilinguals in the city of Chicago in the United States (Schrauf 2009).
Abstract
The notion of immigrant and linguistic superdiversity privileges the multidimensional nature of multilingualism and requires analytic models that attend to the bidirectional interaction of many social and psychological variables. In this chapter I cast multilingualism as an interactive field of language proficiency and language practices, and I propose the use of multiple correspondence analysis (Greenacre 2007) and geometric data analysis (LeRoux & Rouanet 2004) as means for visualizing and analyzing this field. Further, I examine the literature on longitudinal multiple correspondence analysis to suggest ways of modeling the development of language proficiency and the expansion of domains of language use over time. Data are taken from a study of Puerto Rican bilinguals in the city of Chicago in the United States (Schrauf 2009).
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors ix
- Introduction 1
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Capturing superdiversity
- Using correspondence analysis to model immigrant multilingualism over time 27
- Capturing diversity 45
- Measuring language diversity in urban ecosystems 75
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Language acquisition and practice
- Foreign language acquisition in heritage speakers 99
- Heteroglossia in English complementary schools 123
- Enough is enough 143
- The primary classroom as a superdiverse hetero-normative space 161
- Assessing narrative development in bilingual first language acquisition 179
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Examples of language contact and change
- Detecting historical continuity in a linguistically diverse urban area 193
- Four decades of study of synchronic variation in varieties of Dutch. A sketch 227
- Language contact in heritage languages in the Netherlands 253
- Chinese and globalization 275
- Author index 297
- Subject index 301
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of contributors ix
- Introduction 1
-
Capturing superdiversity
- Using correspondence analysis to model immigrant multilingualism over time 27
- Capturing diversity 45
- Measuring language diversity in urban ecosystems 75
-
Language acquisition and practice
- Foreign language acquisition in heritage speakers 99
- Heteroglossia in English complementary schools 123
- Enough is enough 143
- The primary classroom as a superdiverse hetero-normative space 161
- Assessing narrative development in bilingual first language acquisition 179
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Examples of language contact and change
- Detecting historical continuity in a linguistically diverse urban area 193
- Four decades of study of synchronic variation in varieties of Dutch. A sketch 227
- Language contact in heritage languages in the Netherlands 253
- Chinese and globalization 275
- Author index 297
- Subject index 301
