Exploring Intercultural Communication investigates the role of language in intercultural
communication, paying particular attention to the interplay between cultural diversity and …

The family has come into sharp focus in recent sociolinguistic inquiry, spearheaded by the
burgeoning field of “Family Language Policy”. While the name was originally coined by …

Family language policy (FLP), a critical element in home language maintenance in ethnic
minority contexts, is dynamically influenced by “a wide range of linguistic and non-linguistic …

Aims: The primary aim of this special issue is to advance theoretical and empirical
knowledge about the role of emotion in family language policy (FLP). To better capture the …

With increased national and transnational migration in Europe in recent years where people
move to different cities, cross borders, integrate into new culturallinguistic landscapes, form …

Ideology, identity and agency are central concerns in the current study of multilingualism
and transnational families as greater analytical attention is given to how multilingual families …

The field of family language policy has flourished in recent years addressing an ever-
increasing breadth of transnational populations, family types, and linguistic configurations …

In this special issue, we focus on how family language policy (FLP) as a field of enquiry has
evolved over the ten years since the publication of the first thematic issue on FLP in …

This paper addresses language anxiety and monolingual mindsets not only as they relate to
family language use, but also to divergent social, cultural, and emotional domains of family …

With intensified transnational migration in recent years, raising children with more than one
language has become an increasingly widespread phenomenon as people cross borders …