First language attrition, use and maintenance : the case of German Jews in anglophone countries / Monika S. Schmid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmid, Monika S.

Series:

Studies in bilingualism ; v. 24.

Studies in bilingualism, 0928-1533 ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language attrition.

Language maintenance.

Languages in contact.

Jews, German--English-speaking countries--Languages.

Jews, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a study of the L1 attrition of German among German Jews who emigrated to anglophone countries under the Nazi regime. It places the study of language attrition within the historical and sociocultural framework of Weimar and Nazi Germany, applying issues of identity and identification to first language loss and maintenance. Morphosyntactic features of German are looked at in free spoken discourse, in an analysis of both 'interferences' or 'errors' and their overall (correct) use. The picture of L1 proficiency which emerges from these investigations is then related to a taxonomy of intensity of persecution, clearly demonstrating this to be the decisive factor in language attrition, while showing other factors such as age at emigration and intermediate use to be inconclusive.In order to give a full and tangible picture of language attrition and maintenance, the book comes with an Audio-CD, featuring excerpts from more than twenty of the interviews analyzed.

Contents:

First Language Attrition, Use and Maintenance

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

In memory of Jack Sanders (1909-1998)

Table of contents

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Language contact, language change, and language attrition

Chapter 2: The situation of German Jews

Chapter 3: The study

Chapter 4: Morphology: NP-inflection

Chapter 5: Morphology II: VP inflection

Chapter 6: Syntax

Chapter 7: Predictor variables

Conclusion

Notes

References

Appendix I: Tables

Appendix II: Letter and questionnaire

Appendix III: CD and transcripts

Index

Studies in Bilingualism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-212) and index.

ISBN:

9786612161490

9781282161498

1282161490

9789027296870

9027296871

OCLC:

70767443