Emerging bilingual speech : from monolingualism to code-copying / / Anna Verschik

• Autore: Verschik Anna <1968->
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Continuum, , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 404.2
• Soggetto topico: Bilingualism; Second language acquisition
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-238) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Transliteration of Russian; Introduction; 1. Theoretical background: combining structural and sociolinguistic factors; 2. Emerging multilingual communication: Russian in Estonia, Russian and Estonian, Estonia's Russian; 3. Code-copying framework and copiability; 4. Case studies in code-copying; 5. Code-copying and patterns of bilingual communication; 6. Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Emerging bilingual speech
• ISBN: 1-4742-1216-6; 1-282-87546-9; 9786612875465; 1-4411-6492-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785102503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II