Guests and hosts:: What hospitality may reveal in the heritage language classroom

Martha Sif Karrebæk; Narges Ghandchi

Guests and hosts: What hospitality may reveal in the heritage language classroom

Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

Abstract

This paper engages with the notion of hospitality (Herzfeld, 1987; Pitt-Rivers, 1963) in order to analyze and understand the practice of receiving visitors in two Farsi mother tongue classrooms in Copenhagen. We focus on visits by students’ friends. Although uninvited by the principal teacher, he treated the visitors as guests and provided them with exercises and attention. We argue that the relational models of hospitality and of education do not unproblematically meet in or map onto the same situation. At the same time hospitality shed light on general challenges of mother tongue education, for instance that it needs to attend to different and potentially conflicting agendas in order to exist. Data come from a longitudinal fieldwork, and we use Linguistic Ethnography as our methodological approach.

Original language	English
Journal	Linguistics and Education
Pages (from-to)	37-47
Number of pages	11
ISSN	0898-5898
Publication status	Published - Jun 2017

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