ABSTRACT

The final chapter offers a summary of findings and implications resulting from the conducted research on Family Language Policy in the Polish diaspora in Australia. It also sheds light on some future avenues of research in the discipline. Research on FLP has articulated the fact that family is an important domain embedded in society where home language maintenance with discourses on transnational families and heritage languages are ingrained. In addition, FLP must draw on the perspectives of a critical approach to family multilingualism. Its dynamic nature is constantly manifested by family language ideologies, practices and management visible in the manifold sociolinguistic scholarship.