Keywords
multilingualism
emotions
CLB – child language brokering
pride
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Abstract
The paper discusses the aspect of emotions seen through the eyes of Polish bilingual and multilingual children living in the United Kingdom, expressed in short pieces of writing (called ‘microaccounts’). It is a part of the PhD project, comprising semistructured interviews with 55 language mediators (aged 8–18). 36 of the respondents aged 11–18 agreed to express their feelings in black and white. The data were collected in the years 2015–2016 in the United Kingdom by the author and the 36 teenage brokers were selected on the basis of their age and thus presumed maturity, as well as their readiness to participate in the additional part of the study. All data were transcribed and analysed by the author in person. The preliminary results of the interviews reveal that when asked how they feel brokering for others, the majority of the interviewees admitted to having experienced positive emotions, such as pride, happiness, the need to be helpful, needed and smarter. Since the interviews were video recorded, eliciting emotions turned out a true challenge at times and the author had suspected that her presence might impact the answers to some extent. Thus, in order to check whether the same feelings would be confirmed in writing, when young people are left unattended, without the intimidation related to the presence of a camera, the openended question “When I translate for others I feel...” was asked. The The paper discusses the aspect of emotions seen through the eyes of Polish bilingual and multilingual children living in the United Kingdom, expressed in short pieces of writing (called ‘microaccounts’). It is a part of the PhD project, comprising semistructured interviews with 55 language mediators (aged 8–18). 36 of the respondents aged 11–18 agreed to express their feelings in black and white. The data were collected in the years 2015–2016 in the United Kingdom by the author and the 36 teenage brokers were selected on the basis of their age and thus presumed maturity, as well as their readiness to participate in the additional part of the study. All data were transcribed and analysed by the author in person. The preliminary results of the interviews reveal that when asked how they feel brokering for others, the majority of the interviewees admitted to having experienced positive emotions, such as pride, happiness, the need to be helpful, needed and smarter. Since the interviews were video recorded, eliciting emotions turned out a true challenge at times and the author had suspected that her presence might impact the answers to some extent. Thus, in order to check whether the same feelings would be confirmed in writing, when young people are left unattended, without the intimidation related to the presence of a camera, the openended question “When I translate for others I feel...” was asked. The
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