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Elizabeth Lanza

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Elizabeth Lanza er professor emerita på Senter for flerspråklighet (MultiLing).

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Elizabeth Lanza er professor emerita i lingvistikk ved Universitetet i Oslo. Fra 1. juni 2013 t.o.m. 31.12.21 var hun leder for Senter for flerspråklighet (MultiLing), som er et senter for fremragende forskning i Norges forskningsråds SFF-program. Fra januar 2007 til mars 2008 var hun leder for Fransk - norsk senter for humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap i Paris. Lanza er medlem av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi.

Lanza tok sin doktorgrad i lingvistikk på Georgetown University i 1990 med en spesialisering i sosiolingvistikk. Hennes viktigste forskningsinteresser er tospråklighet/ flerspråklighet hvor hennes forskningsarbeider hovedsaklig er sosiolingvistisk orientert med perspektiver fra diskursanalyse/samtaleanalyse.

Lanza sitter i Editorial Board for tidsskriftene International Journal of Bilingualism utgitt av Sage, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition utgitt av Cambridge University Press, Linguistic Landscape (John Benjamins), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Multilingual Margins (University of Western Cape, South Africa) og bokserien IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society (John Benjamins).

Lanza er medlem av Scientific Advisory Board for Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research på University of the Western Cape, Sør Afrika; External Advisory Board for Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication på Stony Brook University; og Steering Group for prosjektet Translation and Translanguaging: Investigating Linguistic and Cultural Transformations in Superdiverse Wards in Four UK Cities (2014 - 2018), finansiert av det britiske AHRC; Advisory Committee for British Academys Special Research Project om Cognitive Benefits of Language Learning, University College London, UK (2016 – 2017); og Advisory Board for OWRI Open World Research Initiative-prosjektet Language and Community in a Globalising World, finansiert av AHRC (juli 2016 – 2019). Lanza har også deltatt i styret for forskningsprosjektet UPUS Utviklingsprosesser i urbane språkmiljøer — konvergens og divergens, finansiert av Norges forskningsråd.

Lanza var leder for den lokale arrangementskomiteen for International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB8) som ble holdt på Universitetet i Oslo 15. - 18. juni 2011. Konferansen var en del av Universitetets 200-års jubileumsfeiring. På ISB8 ble Lanza valgt som Chair of the Steering Committee for ISB for en fire-års periode (2011 - 2015). Under hennes ledelse ble ISB9 holdt i Singapore i 2013 og ISB10 i New Jersey, USA, i 2015.

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Undervisnings- og veiledningsområder

Tospråklighet/flerspråklighet, sosiolingvistikk, diskursanalyse / samtaleanalyse, narrativanalyse, barnespråk, språkpolitikk, forskningsmetoder

Faglige kompetanseområder

Tospråklighet/flerspråklighet, sosiolingvistikk, diskursanalyse / samtaleanalyse, narrativanalyse, barnespråk, språkpolitikk, forskningsmetoder

Pågående og planlagte forskningsprosjekter ved MultiLing og ILN

Lanzas aktuelle forskning fokuserer på spørsmål knyttet til forhold mellom språk, kultur og identitet hos flerspråklige, med særlig focus på språkpolitikk i familien. Hun er leder for forskningsprosjektet MultiFam: Språkpolitikk i flerspråklige transkulturelle familier (2015 – 2018), finansiert av Norges forskningsråd (FRIPRO prosjekt). Hun ledet det tverrfaglige forskningsprosjektet Language, Culture and Identity in Migrant Narratives (også kalt SKI-prosjektet: Språk, Kultur, Identitet) finansiert av Norges forskningsråd 2008 - 2012. Hun var i styret for forskernettverket 3M - Identities in Motion: Multilingualism, Multiculturalism, Mobility, finansiert av NordForsk (2009 - 2011).

Lanza fortsetter å arbeide med flerspråklig førstespråkstilegnelse, språksosialisering og familiespråkpolitikk. Hennes forskning dekker også språkpolitikk mer generelt. Hun har deltatt i et prosjekt om flerspråklig utdanning i Etiopia, som ble finansiert av NUFU-programmet, i samarbeid med Department of Linguistics, Addis Ababa University (2001 – 2006). Lanza deltar også på prosjektet "Lingvistisk kapasitetsbygging - verktøy for en inkluderende utvikling av Etiopia". Prosjektet mottar støtte fra Norad gjennom NORHED (2014 – 2018). Lanza forsker på sosiolingvistiske emner, spesielt på språkideologier og det lingvistiske landskapet, sammen med sin etiopiske kollega Hirut Woldemariam (Addis Ababa University).

Emneord: Flerspråklighet, Tospråklighet, Sosiolingvistikk, Kulturelt mangfold, Språkkontakt, Diskursanalyse, Samtaleforskning, Narrativer

Se den engelskspråklige personsiden for den oppdaterte publikasjonslisten.

2022. Elizabeth Lanza & Anne Golden. Wielding space and time in migrant narratives: Personal and professional identities in discourse. In Pia Lane, Bjørghild Kjelsvik & Annika Bøstein Myhr (eds.), Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives. Crossing Borders and Telling Lives. Palgrave.
2017. Elizabeth Lanza & Hirut Woldemariam. Linguistic Landscape of Ethiopia. In M. Aronoff (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.230
2017. Kendall King & Elizabeth Lanza (Eds.). Ideology, Agency, and Imagination in Multilingual Families. Special issue. International Journal of Bilingualism. Online first.
2016. Elizabeth Lanza & Li Wei (red.). Multilingual Encounters in Transcultural Families. Særnummer: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Nr 37, Bind 7.
2016. Robert Blackwood, Elizabeth Lanza & Hirut Woldemariam (red.). Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic Landscapes. Bloomsbury Academic.
2016. Williams, Quentin E. & Elizabeth Lanza. The visualisation of multilingualism and voice in spaces of consumption: Linguistic landscaping in a South African urban space. In Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic Landscapes. Redigert av Robert Blackwell, Elizabeth Lanza & Hirut Woldemariam. Bloomsbury Academic.
2015. Anne Golden & Elizabeth Lanza. Coon Valley Norwegians Meet Norwegians from Norway: Language, Culture and Identity among Heritage Language Speakers in the U. S. In Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, Attrition and Change. Redigert av Janne Bondi Johannessen & Joseph Salmons. John Benjamins.
2015. Hirut Woldemariam & Elizabeth Lanza. Imagined community: The linguistic landscape in a diaspora. Linguistic Landscape 1:1/2: 166–184.
2014. Elizabeth Lanza & Hirut Woldemariam. Multilingualism and local literacy practices in Ethiopia: Language contact in regulated and unregulated spaces. Multilingual Margins, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Kan lastes ned: DOI: https://doi.org/10.14426/mm.v1i1.22
2014. Elizabeth Lanza & Hirut Woldemariam. English in Ethiopia: Making Space for the Individual in Language Policy. In Challenges for Language Education and Policy. Making Space for People. Edited by Bernard Spolsky, Ofra Inbar-Lorie and Michal Tannenbaum. Routledge.
2014. Hirut Woldemariam & Elizabeth Lanza. Language contact, agency and power in the linguistic landscape of two regional capitals in Ethiopia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 228: 79 - 103. Special Issue on “Signs in Context: Multilingual Texts in Semiotic Space".
2013. Elizabeth Lanza & Hirut Woldemariam. Indexing modernity: Branding in the linguistic landscape of an African capital. International Journal of Bilingualism. Special issue on "Mobility and Linguistic Landscape".
2013. Anne Golden & Elizabeth Lanza. Metaphors of culture: Identity construction in migrants' narrative discourse. Intercultural Pragmatics. Special issue on “Metaphor in Culture”.
2012. Hirut Woldemariam & Elizabeth Lanza. Religious wars in the linguistic landscape. I C.Hélot, M. Barni, R. Janssens & C. Bagna (red.), Linguistic Landscapes, Multilingualism and Social Change: Diversité des Approches. Peter Lang Vorlag.
2012. Elizabeth Lanza. Empowering a migrant identity: Agency in narratives of a work experience in Norway. Sociolinguistic Studies. Special issue on "Agency and Power in Multilingual Practices", Vol. 6 (2).
2012. Anne Golden & Elizabeth Lanza. Narratives on literacy: Adult migrants' identity construction in interaction. I Lars Holm & Anne Pitkänen-Huhta (red.), Literacy Practices in Transition: Perspectives from the Nordic Countries. Multilingual Matters.
2008. Elizabeth Lanza og Hirut Woldemariam. Language ideology and linguistic landscape: Language policy and globalization in a regional capital of Ethiopia. I Elana Shohamy og Durk Gurter (red.), Linguistic Landscape. Expanding the Scenery. Routledge.
2008. Elizabeth Lanza. Selecting individuals, groups and sites. I Li Wei og M. Moyer (red.), The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism. Oxford: Blackwell. (Vinner BAAL Book Prize 2009)
2007. Elizabeth Lanza og Bente Ailin Svendsen. Tell me who your friends are and I might be able to tell you what language(s) you speak: Social network analysis, multilingualism, and identity. International Journal of Bilingualism, Volume 11, Number 3, September 2007, pp. 275-300.
2007. Elizabeth Lanza. Multilingualism and the family. I Li Wei og P. Auer (red.), Handbooks of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 5: Multilingualism. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2004. Elizabeth Lanza. Papirutgave med nytt etterord av Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism: A Sociolinguistic Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (407 pages)
2004. Elizabeth Lanza. Language socialization of infant bilingual children in the family: Quo vadis? I X. Rodríguez-Yáñez, A. Suárez og F. Ramallo (red.), Bilingualism and Education from the Family to the School. Munich: Lincom Europa, 21 - 39.
2001. Anne Hvenekilde og Elizabeth Lanza. Applying social network analysis to the Filipino community in Oslo. I A. Hvenekilde og J. Nortier (red.), Meetings at the Crossroads. Studies of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism. Oslo: Novus forlag.
2001. Elizabeth Lanza. Bilingual first language acquisition: A discourse perspective on language contact in parent - child interactions. I J. Cenoz og F. Genesee (red.),Trends in Bilingual Acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 201 - 229.
2001. Elizabeth Lanza. Temporality and language contact in narratives by children acquiring Norwegian and English simultaneously. I L. Verhoeven and S. Strömqvist (red.), Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 15 - 50.
2000. Elizabeth Lanza. Concluding remarks: Language contact - a dilemma for the bilingual child or for the linguist? I S. Döpke (red.), Cross-Linguistic Structures in Simultaneous Bilingualism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 227 - 245.
1999. Bernt Brendemoen, Elizabeth Lanza og Else Ryen (red.). Language Encounters Across Time and Space. Studies in Language Contact. Oslo: Novus forlag.
1999. Anne Hvenekilde og Elizabeth Lanza. Linguistic variation in two 18th century Lutheran creole primers from the Danish West Indies. I B. Brendemoen, E. Lanza og E. Ryen (eds.), Language Encounters Across Time and Space. Studies in Language Contact. Oslo: Novus forlag, 271 - 292.
1999. Elizabeth Lanza. Raising children bilingually in Norway. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 133: 73 - 88.
1997. Elizabeth Lanza. Language contact in bilingual two-year-olds and code-switching: Language encounters of a different kind? International Journal of Bilingualism, Vol. 1 (2): 135 - 162.
1997. Elizabeth Lanza. Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism: A Sociolinguistic Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1996. Elizabeth Lanza. Input parental et différentiation linguistique chez une bilingue de deux ans: Interactions dyadiques et triadiques. AILE (Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Etrangère), 6: 11 - 37.
1992. Elizabeth Lanza. Can bilingual two-year-olds code-switch? Journal of Child Language, 19, 3: 633 - 658.

Gonçalves, Kellie & Lanza, Elizabeth (2024). Familyscapes, multilingualism and family language policy. I Blackwood, Robert; Tufi, Stefania & Amos, Will (Red.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350272521. s. 422–440. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Gonzalez, Elisabet Garcia; Liu, Liquan & Lanza, Elizabeth (2023). Language in multilingual families during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: A survey of challenges and opportunities. Multilingua - Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage Communiciation. ISSN 0167-8507. doi: 10.1515/multi-2023-0011. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Abstract The first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in school closures and homeschooling for families across the world. This provided a unique scenario to investigate multilingual family language interaction, and specifically, challenges and opportunities for home language (HL) use. This study is rooted in Family Language Policy (FLP) research, building on previous models of language policy as language beliefs, practices and management, as it addresses the effects of the lockdown on the use of, and exposure to, HLs. An online survey was used to assess the language beliefs, practices and management in a sample of families in Norway, a country with a significant and complex linguistic diversity. Our results indicate overall positive attitudes towards multilingualism in Norway, which are associated with an increased use of, and exposure to, Norwegian and HLs during the lockdown. Furthermore, we find a unique presence of English in multilingual families in Norway, especially across online spaces. Lastly, our study shows that the perception of multilingualism as a source of well-being is associated with positive effects of the lockdown in the use of HLs during the pandemic. We contend that this result can be taken as an example that, even in dire times of despair, families can find opportunities to promote multilingualism and language maintenance.
Gomes, Rafael Lomeu; Lanza, Elizabeth & Athari, Zahir (2023). (Nanny) State as family by proxy: Media discourses on refugee and asylum-seeking children in Norway. Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices. ISSN 2632-4490. 4(2). doi: 10.1558/jmtp.26482. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
In this article, we extend the boundaries of research on family language policy (FLP) by addressing the situation that occurs when the State takes over the care of unaccompanied minor refugees and asylum-seekers, thereby assuming by proxy the responsibilities normally assigned to families. We analyse media discourses involving unaccompanied minors (UMs) in Norway, a Scandinavian country perceived as having liberal policies, in a corpus of 30 articles published between 2016 and 2017, a significant period of immigration in a European context. Our analysis reveals a polarized debate around these children, often termed anchor children, who allegedly aim for future biological family reunification. Assuming the family role as proxy, Norway is referred to as a Nanny State, making decisions for the UMs regarding their well-being, education and language learning. Engaging with recent calls for decolonizing and southernizing critical discourse studies (CDS), we anchor our analysis onto decoloniality. We argue that this epistemological move allows us to identify opposing understandings of culture undergirding two competing sides in debates about UMs in Norway. The study has both theoretical and methodological implications for future conceptualizations of the family in FLP research.
Gomes, Rafael Lomeu & Lanza, Elizabeth (2022). Southern Approaches to Family Multilingualism, The Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South/s. Routledge. ISSN 9780367440145. s. 285–296. doi: 10.4324/9781003007074-29. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Golden, Anne (2022). Wielding space and time in migrant narratives: Personal and professional identities in discourse. I Lane, Pia; Kjelsvik, Bjørghild & Myhr, Annika Bøstein (Red.), Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives: Crossing Borders and Telling Lives. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030891084. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Purkarthofer, Judith; Lanza, Elizabeth & Berg, Mina Finstad (2021). Discourses between the Public and the Private: Transnational Families at the Crossroads. Applied Linguistics. ISSN 0142-6001. 43(3), s. 563–586. doi: 10.1093/applin/amab053. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Abstract Raising a child is a challenging venture, regardless of where one lives in the world. Most children are raised in their families; however, many states have welfare services if the child’s well-being is at stake. Scandinavian countries follow a rather strict policy in placing the child’s individual rights above those of the family, and Norway has child welfare legislation that applies to all children in the country, regardless of their status, nationality or citizenship. This institutional structure has raised issues about how family life is negotiated in society. In this article, we analyze the ways in which language and culture are used to address expectations of (good) normal family life in both private and public discourses with implications for transnational families. We thus problematize the notion of the family as a private domain or space. Furthermore, by examining institutional involvement in child-rearing, we extend research on family language policy to contexts of foster care. We thereby raise the discussion to a societal level about private and public expectations towards family life in a late-modern society.
Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). The family as a space: Multilingual repertoires, language practices and lived experiences. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (JMMD). ISSN 0143-4632. 42(8), s. 763–771. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2021.1979015. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2020). Digital storytelling:Multilingual parents’ blogs and vlogs as narratives of family language policy. I Kulbrandstad, Lars Anders & Steien, Guri Bordal (Red.), Språkreiser : festskrift til Anne Golden på 70-årsdagen 14. juli 2020. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788283900422. s. 177–192. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Gomes, Rafael Lomeu (2020). Family language policy: Foundations, theoretical perspectives and critical approaches. I Schalley, Andrea C. & Eisenchlas, Susana A. (Red.), Handbook of Home Language Maintenance and Development. Social and Affective Factors. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 9781501516894. s. 153–173. doi: 10.1515/9781501510175-008. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Røyneland, Unn & Lanza, Elizabeth (2020). Dialect Diversity and Migration: Disturbances and Dilemmas, Perspectives from Norway. I Brunn, Stanley D. & Kehrein, Roland (Red.), Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer. ISSN 9783319734002. s. 1–19. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_223-1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Globalization and concomitant social, cultural, political, and economic processes have promoted both spatial and symbolic mobility leading to increased linguistic complexity. The ambiguity of this linguistic complexity in its social and political dimensions is discussed in this chapter. With Norway as a case, the assumption that linguistic diversity is inherently valuable and the often accompanying notion that there is a natural fit between diversity and democratic egalitarianism are questioned. Norwegian society is, relatively speaking, positive in its attitudes toward linguistic variation with dialects widely used by people in all social strata in both informal and formal settings. There are two written norms of Norwegian but no spoken standard. Many new Norwegian speakers find this linguistic diversity difficult and challenging to learn. Should Norwegians stop using dialects in order to accommodate the increasing immigrant population? Or should new speakers be expected to learn to understand Norwegian with all its diversity? Questioning the value of dialect diversity runs contrary to the very grain of democratic ideals in Norway. The regimes of language ideologies emerging in this situation are discussed, while drawing on theoretical frameworks underlying studies of language ideologies and democracy. Methodologically anchored in participant observation and previous research, this study also draws on media debates touching on local and global discourses in Norway. By addressing disturbances and dilemmas of linguistic complexities in society, a better understanding may come to light regarding the challenges and possibilities linguistic diversity may offer for the individual in a multilingual society.
Golden, Anne & Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). Language Learning and Literacy: The Multilingual Subject in Narratives of Older Immigrant Refugee Women. I Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta; Golden, Anne; Holm, Lars; Laursen, Helle Pia & Pitkanen-huhta, Anne (Red.), Reconceptualizing Connections between Language, Literacy and Learning. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783030269937. s. 253–276. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-26994-4_13. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Fløgstad, Guro Nore & Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). Language contact across the lifespan. I Darquennes, Jeroen; Salmons, Joseph C. & Vandenbussche, Wim (Red.), Language Contact – An International Handbook. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 9783110433258. s. 172–184. doi: 10.1515/9783110435351-015. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
The outcome of a multilingual encounter depends on a number of factors. Contact may be of various kinds and may differ in duration, and speakers may belong to different sociocultural groups depending on such variables as socioeconomic status, gender, and, crucially, age. Furthermore, the outcomes may consequently differ in nature − from lexical loan words, to prosodic transfer and morphosyntactic simplification, to the formation of new contact varieties. This chapter provides a state of the art overview of the ways in which age affects the outcome of a linguistic contact situation, and the way in which age is relevant to the formation of that outcome
Lanza, Elizabeth & Lexander, Kristin Vold (2019). Family Language Practices in Multilingual Transcultural Families. I Montanari, Simona & Quay, Suzanne (Red.), Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Multilingualism: The Fundamentals. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 9781501507984. s. 229–252. doi: 10.1515/9781501507984-011. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). Urban multilingualism and family language policy. I Caliendo, Giuditta; Janssens, Rudi; Slembrouck, Stef & Avermaet, Piet Van (Red.), Urban Multilingualism in Europe: Bridging the Gap between Language Policies and Language Practices. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 9781501503207. s. 121–139. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Multilingualism across the lifespan: The family as a space for language learning, and practices and policies. I Mesthrie, Rajend & Bradley, David (Red.), The Dynamics of Language. Plenary and Focus Lectures from the 20th International Congress of Linguists. UCT Press. ISSN 9781775822363. s. 257–263. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2017). 家庭与多语发展. Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning. ISSN 2096-1014. 2(6), s. 57–67. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Woldemariam, Hirut (2017). Linguistic Landscape of Ethiopia. I Aronoff, Mark (Red.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780199384655. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.230. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Williams, Quentin & Lanza, Elizabeth (2016). The visualisation of multilingualism and voice in spaces of consumption: Linguistic landscaping in a South African urban space. I Blackwood, Robert; Lanza, Elizabeth & Woldemariam, Hirut (Red.), Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic Landscapes. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781472506177. s. 233–249. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth; Røyneland, Unn & Lane, Pia (2016). MultiLing. Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan: A Center of Excellence in Norway. Sociolinguistica : Internationales Jahrbuch fuer Europaeische Soziolinguistik. ISSN 0933-1883. s. 223–231. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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Lanza, Elizabeth & Lane, Pia (2025). Exploring contemporary and future directions in the study of Linguistic Landscapes. doi: https:/amms.wls.uw.edu.pl/conference-2025/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2024). Family matters: Multilingualism, diversity and language policies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2023). Accessing Children's Imaginative Worlds Through Language. Psychologytoday.com. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/living-with-languages/202306/accessing-childrens-imaginative-worlds-through-language
Lanza, Elizabeth (2023). Family multilingualism in the 21st century. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2023). How Love Through Language Forges Family Bonds. Psychologytoday.com. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/living-with-languages/202302/how-love-through-language-forges-family-bonds
Lanza, Elizabeth (2023). Heritage Language Maintenance in Transnational Families in the 21st Century: Complexity and Globalisation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Gomes, Rafael Lomeu (2023). Decolonial and Southern Approaches to Multilingualism: An Introduction. Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices. ISSN 2632-4490. 4(2). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth; Judith, Purkarthofer; Lexander, Kristin Vold; Objoska, Maria & Gomes, Rafael Lomeu (2023). Family matters - Northern and Southern perspectives. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2022). Transnational migration and multilingual families: Policies and practices. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2022). Multilingual families in the 21st century: Practices and policies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2022). Family multilingualism in the 21st century. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2022). Multilingual families at the crossroads of private and public discourses. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2022). Transnational migration and multilingual families in the 21st century: Policies and practices. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2022). Children’s learning of more than one language in the family: Policies and practices, input and experience. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Røyneland, Unn & Lanza, Elizabeth (2022). Sterke forskingsmiljø tar lang tid å bygge opp og kort tid å rive ned. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Granfeldt, Jonas (2022). Interview about research on language acquisition and multilingualism. [Internet]. LAMiNATE. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi (2022). Translanguaging Matters in Multilingual Families. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2022). Expanding the LL: Familyscapes, multilingualism, and family language policy. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Gomes, Rafael Lomeu; Lanza, Elizabeth & Athari, Zahir (2021). Nanny State? Integration, kinship and identity among refugee and asylum-seeking unaccompanied minors. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). Transnationalism and family language policy in an era of global mobility: Discussion. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). How Grandparents Impact Languages in the Family. Psychology Today. ISSN 0033-3107. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Golden, Anne & Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). Metaphors in migrant narratives. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). Digital communication in the family. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth; Liemacher-Riebold, Ute; Rosenback, Rita & Yung, Tetsu (2021). Raising Multilinguals Live: Family Language Policies and Practices. [Internet]. Raising Multilinguals Live. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). Language and Communication in Transcultural Families: Discussion/Commentary. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
González, Elisabet García; Liu, Liquan & Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). Multilingual Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Parental beliefs, practices and opportunities for increased minority language use. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
González, Elisabet García & Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). Languages in Lockdown. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Over the last year, measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have affected our lives in unprecedented ways. One notable change has been the amount of time children have spent at home during repeated lockdowns and school closures. In families where more than one language is spoken, this new situation had the potential to change patterns of language use. In the spring and summer of 2020, a team of researchers in the UK and one in Norway came together to get a snapshot of language use in multilingual families during the first lockdown through a survey. In this webinar researchers from the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (UK), UCL (UK), and MultiLing (Norway) will share some of the insights from this work, and they will be joined on the panel by parents who took part in the research. We welcome audience participation, and there will be ample opportunity to engage with questions from participants.
Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). Multilingual families at the crossroads of private and public discourses. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
In sociolinguistics, the family has traditionally been considered a private domain with language practices among family members determined by certain parameters, all within the confines of the home. Given the social, cultural and linguistic changes brought about by contemporary globalization with new communication technologies, and changes in the political and economic landscape, home language maintenance and development in multilingual families has become highly complex. In my talk, I will give a critical view of the family as a private domain and argue for the need to conceptualize the family as a space that is constructed through discourse. Mediatized discourses on migrant families have forced the family into the public eye, and thus to be constructed as a public space that can be commented upon, accepted and/or rejected. In other discourses, families choose to go public with family matters as in the case of online blogging promoting family language policies for multilingual families. The line between the private and the public is thus blurred, with multilingual families today finding themselves at the crossroads of private and public discourses.
Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). Transnational families and lived experiences: Multilingualism, policies and practices. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth; Røyneland, Unn & Svennevig, Jan (2021). Språk og identitet i Etiopia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). Family Language Policies: Do We Need Them? Psychology Today. ISSN 0033-3107. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth; Sverre, Holm-Nilsen; Mjaaland, Ola & Jørstad, Runar Henriksen (2020). Politiet henter inn nye forskere – jakter på avslørende tabber i trusselbrev. [Internet]. NRK. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth; Hardach, Sophie & González, Elisabet García (2020). In Quarantine, Kids Pick Up Parents’ Mother Tongues. [Internet]. The New York Times. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Keilman, Thomas (2020). Forskningssenter knuser myter om flerspråklighet. [Internet]. Norges Forskningsråd. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2020). Transnational families and family language policy in the 21st Century. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth; Liu, Liquan; Gonzalez, Elisabet; Sevinc, Yesim; Simonsen, Hanne Gram & Norvik, Monica I. [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). The MultiLingual Mind Across the Lifespan. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). Multilingualism and vulnerabilities in Norway: Introduction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). The Multilingual Family as a Space:Ideology and Identity Online. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). Place and mobility: Contemporary globalization and the linguistic landscape in Ethiopia – with a focus on Addis Ababa and Mekelle. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Røyneland, Unn (2019). Place and mobility: Contemporary globalization and the linguistic landscape of Ethiopia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). Multilingual families as public space: Language learning, ideologies and identity online. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). Transnational families as public spaces: Multilingualism, ideologies and identity online. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). Transnational Families as Public Spaces: An Interview with Dr. Elizabeth Lanza. [Internet]. Stony Brook University / Multilingual and Intercultural Comm. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Interview after invitation to give Run Run Shaw lecture/ Provost's Lecture 2019.
Røyneland, Unn & Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). Dialect Diversity and Migration: Disturbances and Dilemmas - Perspectives from the North. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). MultiFam: Family language policy in multilingual transcultural families in Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). Multilingual parenting: Family language policy in online blogging and vlogging. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2019). Multilingual parenting: Family language policy in online blogging and vlogging. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Goncalves, Kellie; Lanza, Elizabeth & Lexander, Kristin Vold (2018). From migrant grocery store to Espresso House: understanding urban change in the conspicuous cultural consumption of Grünerløkka Oslo, Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Goncalves, Kellie & Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Narratives of Motherhood: An introduction (academic panel). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Place and Mobility: The Linguistic Landscape in Contemporary Globalization. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Raising children multilingually: Family language policies and online blogging. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Multilingualism across the lifespan: Competence, practices and policies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Challenges for transnational parents in contemporary globalized society. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Transnational families as public spaces: Multilingualism, ideologies and identity online. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Goncalves, Kellie; Lanza, Elizabeth & Lexander, Kristin Vold (2018). From Antlers to Esspresso House: X-scape and escape to Scandinavia's trendiest neighborhood. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
According to Vogue (2017) “no neighborhood better embodies Oslo’s coming-of-age than Grünerløkka, a neatly encapsulated couple of square blocks with a name that might scare off anglophones—it’s pronounced GROO-ner-loh-kuh—but with an attitude and energy that is reminiscent of New York’s Williamsburg or Bushwick, Montreal’s Mile End, or even Los Angeles’s Silver Lake”. In this paper, we investigate the changing linguistic and semiotic landscapes of Grünerløkka, Oslo’s (and possibly even Scandinavia’s) best known gentrified neighborhood. We focus on the linguistic and semiotic landscapes that have remained there within the last decade that index the multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual working-class area Grünerløkka once represented and compare them to the newer, more trendier linguistic and semiotic landscapes that index ‘authentic’ Norwegian culture and cuisine resonating cultural consumption and distinction (Zukin 1987; Stjernholm 2015; Trinch & Snajdr 2017) leading to the following research questions: How is the semiotic landscape used by different actors to argue for what they consider should be the “authentic” Grünerløkka? Secondly, how does the actual semiotic landscape translate the tensions that exist between different actors around questions of place, space and neighborhoods? And finally, how do processes of such new globalism(s) (Smith 2002) play out on an international level beyond the scope of Scandinavia? We employ a mixed methodological approach and draw on a) the “marketplace’s” (Kallen 2010) signage; b) interviews conducted with local residents and business owners; and c) texts from several online platforms. Our analysis attends to the ways in which Grünerløkka has managed to remain ethnically diverse, while simultaneously catering to a growing new gentry (Warf 2000; Gonçalves, fc, 2018) through the dialectical relationship between commercial interests and residents’ initiatives and resistance on a local level, which are also taking place in urban areas globally.
Lanza, Elizabeth & Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan (2018). Multilingual families: aspirations and challenges. International Journal of Multilingualism. ISSN 1479-0718. 15(3), s. 231–232. doi: 10.1080/14790718.2018.1477091. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Curd-Christiansen, Xiao Lan & Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). How to conduct family language policy research. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Family matters for the multilingual child: Input, practices and policies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Raising children multilingually: Family as a space for language learning and use. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Multilingualism and diversity in contemporary Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan & Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Language management in multilingual families: Efforts, measures and challenges. Multilingua - Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage Communiciation. ISSN 0167-8507. 37(2), s. 123–130. doi: 10.1515/multi-2017-0132. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). The Family as a Space for Language/Languaging. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Diversifying the ‘family’ in family language policy: Discussion. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2018). Place and Mobility: The Linguistic Landscape in Contemporary Globalization. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2017). Multilingualism and family language policy. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Purkarthofer, Judith (2017). Transnational families, the media and the Norwegian Barnevernet: Discourses between the public and the private. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao-Laan (2017). Multilingual families. Aspirations and challenges. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2017). Family matters. Multilingual practices and policies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2017). Multilingual transcultural families in Europe: A view from Norway. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Espeland, Tordis Marie & Lanza, Elizabeth (2017). Språksamarbeid gjev nye perspektiv. [Internet]. SIUs nettsted. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2017). The multilingual child and the family: Input, practices and policies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
King, Kendall & Lanza, Elizabeth (2017). Ideology, agency, and imagination in multilingual families: An introduction. International Journal of Bilingualism. ISSN 1367-0069. s. 1–7. doi: 10.1177/1367006916684907. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Wigglesworth, Gillian (2017). The complexities of family language policy across multilingual settings. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2017). Raising children multilingually: Family language policies and online blogging. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Bergstrøm, Ida (2017). Langt mellom de kvinnelige SFF-lederne. [Journal]. Uniforum. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Serratrice, Ludovice (2017). Language policy in multilingual families Interview for Bilingualism Matters@Reading: http://www.bilingualism-matters.ppls.ed.ac.uk/. [Internet]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5wRy34pmzA. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Purkarthofer, Judith & Lanza, Elizabeth (2017). Transnational families, the media and the Norwegian Barnevernet: Discourses between the public and the private. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth (2016). All in the family? The complexities of urban multilingualism. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Woldemariam, Hirut & Lanza, Elizabeth (2016). Beijing in Africa: A new dimension in the LL of Addis Ababa. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Lanza, Elizabeth & Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan (2016). Introduction: Multilingual family language management - Efforts, measures and choices. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Gomes, Rafael Lomeu; Lane, Pia; Lanza, Elizabeth & Pennycook, Alastair (2019). Family multilingualism: Language practices and ideologies of Brazilian-Norwegian families in Norway. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
This thesis examines the interconnections between language practices and ideologies of Brazilian-Norwegian families in Oslo, Norway. Resulting from a three-year ethnographically oriented sociolinguistic project (2017-2019), the thesis is based on data generated through the employment of various methods: online questionnaire, semi-structured interview, self-recording, and participant observation. Contributions to research on multilingual families are as follows: First, I claim that certain parental discourse strategies might, contrary to parental expectations, restrict the child’s use of their emerging linguistic repertoire. I also suggest that a translanguaging lens is helpful to problematise the notion of one-person-one-language, typically conceived of as a strategy employed by parents. Instead, the notion of one-person-one-language-one-nation is put forth as an ideology that might inform parental language practices. Moreover, I suggest that drawing on a revisited notion of linguistic repertoire can be helpful to understand the role of affect in parent-child multilingual interactions. It also elucidates the discursive positioning of children by parents in expected social roles as family members mind mundane tasks and familial bonds are interactionally constructed. Finally, I argue that drawing on a southern perspective provides robust theoretical grounding to examine the material and discursive structures of differentiation parents have to navigate in intercultural encounters. I then discuss the implications of the processes to language practices in the home. Drawing on recent conceptualisations of language and on a southern perspective reframes debates about how transnational practices, identity construction, and family-making can shape the language practices of families. In particular, it attends to issues concerning the hierarchisation of social class, gender and race/ethnicity, and advances knowledge in the direction of understanding language as a socio-historical construct.