Families in Multilingual Situation: Linguistic Ideologies

Linguistically mixed families have a tacit or explicit agreement, which constitutes the family linguistic policy ( KING; LOGAN-TERRY, 2008; MOZZILLO; PUPP SPINASSE, 2020) and which defines the daily practices, as well as the project of transmission and maintenance ( or not) of the languages. When the home language (s) do(es) not coincide with that/ those of the external environment, there can be a situation of confrontation between what is minority and what is majority. The way the family will deal with plurilingualism is a choice often not necessarily based on a conscious or enlightened decision, but it is largely influenced by linguistic ideologies (WOOLARD, 2007) - which are not always in accordance with the results of studies in the area, since these ideologies are constantly imbued with beliefs (PAJARES, 1992). Thus, depending on the practices adopted, the family can determine and foster the bilingualism of their children, or even prevent them from being raised with more than one language, leading to monolingualism. In this sense, this article intends to approach some linguistic ideologies obtained from the discourse of fathers and mothers of families in a plurilingual situation, presenting the ideologemes found.