The gift of language: An anthropological approach to child language brokering in Barcelona

Aran Romero-Moreno*, Mireia Vargas-Urpí

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Resumen

The phenomenon of child language brokering (CLB), that is, translation and interpreting tasks children take on to facilitate communication for their parents and other adults, is often invisible or neglected. The present article seeks to study CLB in the province of Barcelona (Spain) through the theoretical lens of Marcel Mauss's anthropological concept of the ‘gift’. The authors employ interviews with child language brokers, young mediators and parents to show that children's language competences circulate as a gendered gift that produces and reproduces social ties of different kinds—family, extended family, community, the public—and with different levels of reciprocity.
Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)415-431
Número de páginas17
PublicaciónChildren and Society
Volumen36
N.º3
Fecha en línea anticipada20 dic 2021
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 1 may 2022

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