“We just want the language tone”: when requests to use minority languages lead to interactional breakdown in multilingua...
Published in International Journal of the Sociology of Language
In this paper, we analyze two instances of interactional breakdown in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms in Copenhagen and Helsinki. Our focus is situations where teachers request the use of minority languages from pupils, and pupils react reluctantly and display embarrassment. These situations represent sociolinguistic spaces of upse...
