Anna Verschik

Emerging Bilingual Speech (eBook, PDF)

From Monolingualism to Code-Copying

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 fascinating study that will be of interest to researchers studying language contact, language change and bilingualism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441164926
• Artikelnr.: 38301942

Autorenporträt

Anna Verschik is Professor of Linguistics at Tallinn University, Estonia.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Bibliography
Index