Language and the Family: Stretching Concepts, Challenging Methods

This volume revisits language and meaning-making in family life by stretching what counts as "family" and "language" in a deliberately expansive way. Across intergenerational, mobile and mediated contexts, the chapters examine multilingual and multivarietal repertoires, speaking and signing, embodied interaction, and more-than-human participation (including pets and technologies). A central thread is that conceptual stretching has methodological consequences: issues of access, ethics, resea...