This collaborative autoethnography explores the intersection of heritage language (HL) maintenance, emotion, and identity from the perspectives of a mother and her 15-year-old daughter learning and maintaining Korean in the United States. The analysis of their narratives concerning critical emotional experiences relevant to HL maintenance reveals that their complex emotional experiences were guided by a feeling rule: Be evincive of a desire for HL maintenance. Both of them engaged in emotion labor by demonstrating their continuous desire for HL maintenance and masking other felt emotions such as anxiety, shame, guilt, and regret. The results also demonstrate that complying with the feeling rule (for immigrant families) goes beyond emotional expressions—it entails self-fulfillment and social recognition. The mother's desire for establishing her identity as a good (Korean) mother by fulfilling her gendered responsibility of maintaining the HL bolstered her desire for her daughter's Korean language maintenance. The daughter's desire for meeting expectations of others via learning Korean increased her desire for developing bilingual skills, through which she moved away from a racialized and stereotyped Asian image to construct an image of a cool kid with bilingual skills. The article ends with implications for immigrant families’ emotional well-being and further research on HL maintenance.

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遗产语言维护的代际自我民族志：关注情感、身份和权力

这部合作式的民族志从一位在美国学习和维持韩语的母亲和她 15 岁的女儿的角度探讨了传统语言 (HL) 的维持、情感和身份的交叉点。对他们关于与 HL 维护相关的关键情感体验的叙述的分析表明，他们复杂的情感体验受到情感规则的指导：表现出对 HL 维护的渴望。两人都通过表现出对维持 HL 的持续渴望并掩盖其他感受到的情绪（如焦虑、羞耻、内疚和后悔）来从事情感劳动。结果还表明，遵守情感规则（对于移民家庭）不仅仅是情感表达，它还需要自我实现和社会认可。母亲希望通过履行维持 HL 的性别责任来确立自己作为好（韩语）母亲的身份，这增强了她对女儿维持韩语的愿望。女儿通过学习韩语满足他人期望的愿望增强了她对双语能力的渴望，从而摆脱了种族化和刻板的亚洲形象，塑造了一个具有双语能力的酷孩子形象。文章最后提出了对移民家庭情感健康的影响以及对 HL 维持的进一步研究。