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| ISBN: | 0511042736
9780511042737
9780511482960
0511482965
1280434430
9781280434433
0511054483
9780511054488
9780521731515
0521731518
9780521817714
0521817714
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 767-804) and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to the ancient world. This book is the first work to deal systematically with bilingualism during a period of antiquity (the Roman period, down to about the fourth century AD) in the light of sociolinguistic discussions of bilingual issues. The general theme of the work is the nature of the contact between Latin and numerous other languages spoken in the Roman world. Among the many issues discussed three are prominent: code-switching (the practice of switching between two languages in the course of a single utterance) and its motivation, language contact as a cause of change in one or both of the languages in contact, and the part played by language choice and language switching in the establishment of personal and group identities.
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| Other form: | Print version: Adams, J.N. (James Noel). Bilingualism and the Latin language. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521817714
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