Adult narratives of childhood language brokering: Learning what it means to be bilingual

Re-interpreting: Narratives of childhood language brokering over time

This article probes how childhood experiences are actively taken into adult lives and thus challenges the unwitting and unintentional reproduction of an adult-child binary in childhood studies. We do this by analyzing interviews with one adult daughter of immigrants from Mexico to the United States at four points in time (ages 19, 26, 27, and 33). Using narrative analysis to examine the mutabil...

What it means to be free.

Come with us to read a new book that is coming recently. Yeah, this is a new coming book that many people really want to read will you be one of them? Of course, you should be. It will not make you feel so hard to enjoy your life. Even some people think that reading is a hard to do, you must be sure that you can do it. Hard will be felt when you have no ideas about what kind of book to read. Or...

What it means to be a trustee.

What it means to be an adult child of a person with dementia

The prevalence of dementia as a disease has increased worldwide with advancing age and growing population numbers, affecting whole families. However, most previous research does not separate the spouses or cohabitants from the adult children, but instead regards all next of kin involved in the everyday care of the person suffering from dementia as caregivers. This has made it difficult to find ...

What it means to be “better”: The role of comparison language in social comparison

Judgments of personal attributes are often informed by the social information available (Festinger, 1954). The results of social comparison can manifest as assimilation of judgments towards the comparison standard or the contrast of judgments away from the standard, and many theories attempt to describe the conditions under which the two patterns will occur (e.g. Mussweiler, 2003; Schwartz & Bl...