Playing at being bilingual: Bilingual performances, stance, and language scaling in Mayan Tzotzil siblings' play

The present study documents the everyday bilingual practices of Mayan children, using Tzotzil Mayan and Spanish at play. It is based on a video-ethnography of bilingual peer language practices framed within larger research on language socialization in the everyday lives of Mayan children in the South of Mexico. The study examines how the children, whose first language is Tzotzil, staged bilingual scenarios through the use of parallel bilingual...