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1 online resource (xv, 252 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bilingualism.
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Bilingualism. |
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Second language acquisition.
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Second language acquisition. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Verschik, Anna, 1968- Emerging bilingual speech. London : Continuum, 2008 9780826497208 (DLC) 2009291307 (OCoLC)231585257 |
| ISBN |
9781441164926 (electronic book) |
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1441164928 (electronic book) |
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9780826497208 |
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0826497209 |
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