Emerging Bilingual Speech - From Monolingualism to Code-Copying

Zusammenfassung Offers a new perspective on how a previously monolingual community of Russian-speakers in Estonia is becoming bilingual after the end of the Soviet occupation in 1991. This study analyses the contact-induced change in Russian under the impact of Estonian in the theoretical framework of code-copying.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Verschik
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2008
• EAN: 9780826497208
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-9720-8
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism