• Flerspråklig ungdom og familien: Språklige praksiser, aktørskap og identiteter 

      Johnsen, Ragni Vik (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2021-03-05)
      The aim of this thesis is to contribute with knowledge on multilingual adolescents’ language practices, agencies and identity construction in the family. The families have in common that they have adolescent children, that one parent have emigrated from a Latin-American country and that they live in the same Northern-Norwegian city. The data is collected through a methodological triangulation and ...
    • Norsk som en del av et flerspråklig familierepertoar i en trespråklig familie 

      Johnsen, Ragni Vik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Denne artikkelen tar i bruk analysemetoder fra interaksjonell sosiolingvistikk for å studere hvordan en trespråklig familie innlemmer norsk ifamiliens flerspråklige repertoar, og hvordan norsk brukes som en res-surs for å konstruere familien som et sosialt fellesskap. Dataene blesamlet inn som en del av et større prosjekt om flerspråklige ungdommerog familier, og i denne artikkelen analyserer jeg ...
    • “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 ...