eprintid: 1558033
rev_number: 27
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datestamp: 2017-06-01 10:39:58
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type: article
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creators_name: Orellana, MF
creators_name: Phoenix, A
title: Re-interpreting: Narratives of childhood language brokering over time
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
keywords: Child language brokering, memory, narrative analysis
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abstract: This article probes how childhood experiences are actively taken into adult lives and thus challenges the unwitting and unintentional reproduction of an adult–child binary in childhood studies. We do this by analyzing interviews with one adult daughter of immigrants from Mexico to the United States at four points in time (ages 19, 26, 27, and 33). Using narrative analysis to examine the mutability of memory, we consider how Eva oriented herself to her childhood story, what was salient and invisible in each recount, the values she associated with the practice, and the meanings she took from her experiences. We show how Eva re-interpreted her experiences as an immigrant child language broker in relation to unfolding life events, showing her childhood to be very much alive in her adult life. Language brokering serves as one way in which to examine the interpenetration of childhood into adulthood, rather than being the focus per se.
date: 2017-05-01
date_type: published
publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0907568216671178
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
pmcid: PMC5424852
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Article
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elements_id: 1296565
doi: 10.1177/0907568216671178
lyricists_name: Phoenix, Ann
lyricists_id: AAPHO81
full_text_status: public
publication: Childhood
volume: 24
number: 2
pagerange: 183-196
pages: 14
issn: 1461-7013
citation:        Orellana, MF;    Phoenix, A;      (2017)    Re-interpreting: Narratives of childhood language brokering over time.                   Childhood , 24  (2)   pp. 183-196.    10.1177/0907568216671178 <https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568216671178>.       Green open access   
 
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