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- Title
How (not) to talk about adoption: On communicative vigilance in Spain.
- Authors
FREKKO, SUSAN E.; LEINAWEAVER, JESSACA B.; MARRE, DIANA
- Abstract
ABSTRACT Transnational adoption is very difficult to talk about in Spain. For this reason, speakers use 'communicative vigilance' to emphasize the appropriate ways to speak and particularly not to speak about it. Part of the difficulty, we demonstrate, is that adoption talk must mediate two contradictory understandings of talk and kinship: (1) a referentialist one in which adoption's undesirability must be first acknowledged and then masked and (2) a performative one in which talk can create a new world where transnational adoption is equivalent to and as valuable as traditional ways of creating families. Our findings have implications for both language-socialization studies and kinship studies. [ adoption, kinship, parenting, language socialization, language ideologies, silence, Spain]
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL adoption; KINSHIP; SOCIALIZATION research; PARENTING research; IDEOLOGY
- Publication
American Ethnologist, 2015, Vol 42, Issue 4, p703
- ISSN
0094-0496
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/amet.12165