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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782443203321

Autore

Andrews David R

Titolo

Sociocultural perspectives on language change in diaspora : Soviet immigrants in the United States / / David R. Andrews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

1-282-16350-7

9786612163500

90-272-9932-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages)

Collana

IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society

Disciplina

491.72421

Soggetti

Russian language - Foreign elements - English - United States

Russian language - Social aspects - United States

Russian Americans - Languages

Linguistic change - Social aspects

Languages in contact

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE CHANGE IN DIASPORA; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Transliteration Systems and a Note on Format; Permissions; Abstract; Introduction. The Russian Third Wave and Its Language; CHAPTER 1. Fundamentals of Word-Borrowing and Language Contact; CHAPTER 2. Third-Wave Language Attitudes; CHAPTER 3. Third-Wave Loan Words, Neologisms and Other Innovations; CHAPTER 4. Developments in Phonology and Intonation; CHAPTER 5. Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities; References; Index of Subjects; Index of Forms

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American "Third Wave", the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970's under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré Russian with reference to the late Cold-War



period which shaped them and the post-Soviet era of today. The book addresses matters of interest not only to Russianists, but to linguists of various theoretical persuasions and to sociologists, anthropologists and cultural historians working on a range of...