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    • “Quiero juksar en la julaftenito” – Playfulness and metalinguistic awareness in translingual family interactions 

      Johnsen, Ragni Vik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This article explores playfulness and creativity in translingual family interactions. In particular, it focuses on how and to what ends adolescents mobilize multilingual resources in family interactions. It investigates the cases of two multilingual families with adolescent children (13–18 years old). The families have different linguistic backgrounds, but have in common that one of the parents have ...
    • Teasing and policing in a multilingual family — Negotiating and subverting norms and social hierarchies 

      Johnsen, Ragni Vik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-17)
      This paper demonstrates how multilingual adolescents initiate language-directed teasing in family interaction and thus contribute to reinforcing or challenging social hierarchies and norms in the family. It investigates the case of a multilingual family living in Northern Norway (two parents and five children ranging from 3 to 18 years old). To a varying extent, and with varying degrees of competence, ...
    • ‘Then suddenly I spoke a lot of Spanish’ – Changing linguistic practices and heritage language from adolescents’ points of view 

      Johnsen, Ragni Vik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-08)
      This article investigates the multilingual experiences of three Norwegian and Spanish-speaking adolescents with transnational backgrounds. Drawing on narrative analysis and positioning theory, the article seeks to understand how the adolescents position themselves in relation to different expectations of linguistic competence, identities, and their cultural and linguistic inheritance. By investigating ...