What is it about?
Which role does bilingualism play in constructing children's identities? This paper represent a work in progress and is submitted as a contribution to a wider ongoing project of developing the concept of "Mehrraum" as an added value or an extended space that enable us to understand interactions between languages, cultures and societies.
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Mehrraum can be defined as extended social, psychological, physical and intelectual space produced and reproduced continuously through dialogic processes of recombination of languages, cultural references and experiences, and as outflow of immigrants pluralistic rationality of actions and survival strategies.
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This is an important article about more than 5 years of research with german-brazilian children and their families in an institutional out-of-home-setting in Bonn, Germany.
Dr Helza Ricarte Lanz
University of Cologne
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This page is a summary of: Children’s identities constructions and the “Mehrraum”, Language and Dialogue, September 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ld.5.2.03lan.
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