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LEADER: 02857cam a22003014a 4500
001 2001043201
003 DLC
005 20050308181619.0
008 010727s2002 ne a b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aP115.5.G7$bO38 2002
082 00 $a420/.42956/0941$221
100 1 $aOkita, Toshie,
245 10 $aInvisible work :$bbilingualism, language choice, and childrearing in intermarried families /$cToshie Okita.
260 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia :$bBenjamins Pub. Co.,$cc2002.
300 $avi, 274 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
440 0 $aImpact, studies in language and society,$x1385-7908 ;$v12
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Developing a conceptual framework -- 1. The family in context -- 2. Ethnicity, culture and ethnic minority families -- 3. Language, bilingualism and childrearing -- 4. Concluding comments -- 3. Research methods -- 1. Methodological Issues -- 2. Research Methods -- 3. Data Analysis -- 4. Validity and Generalisability -- 4. Japanese-British families in the UK: a survey -- 1. Japanese residents in the UK -- 2. The questionnaire -- 3. The respondents -- 4. Language use and decision making -- 5. Relations with 'Japan' -- 6. Open questions -- 7. Conclusions, and implications for the interviews -- 5. Initial language decision -- 1. Mothers -- 2. Fathers -- 3. Dynamics of decision making: the micro context -- 4. Socio-historical context of decision making: the macro context -- 6. Getting on: adaptations in language use -- 1. Establishing a language use pattern (age approx. 0-2 years) -- 2. Thinking about school (age approx. 3-4) -- 3. Beginning school (age approx. 4-6) -- 4. Changing needs (age approx. 9-11) -- 5. Swing-over (English to Japanese) -- 6. It's decided: nowlet's get on with the main business -- (English -English) -- 7. Childrearing -- 1. Division of Labour -- 2. The road to 'pro-activist' mothering -- 3. Some consequences -- 4. Support -- 8. Going to school -- 1. Starting school -- 2. Competing Demands -'not enough time' -- 3. Adding Japanese reading and writing -- 4. Dealing with time conflicts and pressures -- 9. Family relationships, identity and ethnicity -- 1. Teen years - growing independence of children, -- growing time for mothers -- 2. Evolving Family relationships -- 3. Aspirations and Identity -- 4. Ethnicity -- 10. Concluding discussion -- 1. Illumination -- 2. Recognition.
650 0 $aBilingualism$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aJapanese$zGreat Britain$xLanguages.
650 0 $aChild rearing$zGreat Britain.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001043201.html