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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verschik, Anna, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-238) and index.

ISBN:

9786612875465

9781474212168

1474212166

9781282875463

1282875469

9781441164926

1441164928

OCLC:

676700727