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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 fram...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Verschik, Anna, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.