The Transmission of Breton in the Family: The Effect of Family Rupture and Recomposition

• Autores: Katell Chantreau, Stefan Moal
• Localización: Transmitting Minority Languages: Complementary Reversing Language Shift Strategies / Michael Hornsby (ed. lit.), Wilson McLeod (ed. lit.), 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-87909-9, págs. 77-103
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter describes research on 450 Breton-speaking parents born between 1970 and 1995. They learned Breton within their family or, more often, at school or through adult education. They speak Breton to their children always, often, sometimes or not at all. The results of the survey highlight the dynamic and fluctuating nature of family transmission. It can be set up at the birth of the child or later, it can weaken or strengthen over the years, or be abandoned, depending on biographical breaks (change of job, moving house, separation, illness, death, birth...) and the influences of the different actors in the transmission (in particular the spouse and the children themselves). In this chapter, we are particularly interested in the influence of family separations and recompositions on the transmission of the parent-child Breton. Quantitative and qualitative data from a questionnaire, as well as the testimonies of a dozen parents, form the basis of this study.