Emerging bilingual speech : from monolingualism to code-copying
Anna Verschik
Anna Verschik offers a new perspective on how a previously monolingual community of Russian-speakers in Estonia is rapidly becoming bilingual after the end of the Soviet occupation in 1991. The contact-induced change in Russian under the growing impact of Estonian is analysed in the theoretical framework of code-copying. Changes in linguistic behaviour of the speakers are often a result of intentional cultivation of non-monolingual communication strategies and language policies, and go hand in hand with the development of a new identity, 'Estonian Russians'. Emerging Bilingual Speech is a fasc.
年:
2008
出版商:
Continuum
語言:
english
頁數:
269
ISBN 10:
1441164928
ISBN 13:
9781441164926
文件:
PDF, 2.29 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2008