Emerging Bilingual Speech - From Monolingualism to Code-Copying

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.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Verschik, Anna Verschik
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2011
• EAN: 9781441127440
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-2744-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology