Talking language ideologies into being in parent-child conversations in Singapore

This paper investigates how language ideologies are implicitly constructed and negotiated in the social interactions between two three-years-old children and their parents in Singapore. Conversation analysis shows that complex and competing varietal ideologies in the broader Singaporean society were present in family discourse at the micro level. Further, while the parents socialized their children into their values and norms and the children often conformed to these ideologies, the children also occasionally resisted them and asserted their own varietal preferences. The findings contribute to the understudied area of varietal ideologies in language socialization and shed light on the making of lan-guage ideologies in parents' conversations with children.(c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.