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Emerging Bilingual Speech: From Monolingualism to Code-Copying

Emerging Bilingual Speech: From Monolingualism to Code-Copying

Verschik, Anna
Anna Verschik

Paperback

LinguisticsBilingual Education

ISBN10: 1441127445
ISBN13: 9781441127440
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Dec 22 2011
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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