Emerging bilingual speech : from monolingualism to code-copying /

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Author / Creator:Verschik, Anna, 1968-
Imprint:London : Continuum, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11232274
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ISBN:9781441164926
1441164928
9781474212168
1474212166
9781441127440
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144114028X
9780826497208
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Verschik, Anna, 1968- Emerging bilingual speech. London : Continuum, 2008 9780826497208