Sociocultural perspectives on language change in diaspora : Soviet immigrants in the United States /

Andrews, David R.

Sociocultural perspectives on language change in diaspora : Soviet immigrants in the United States / Language change in diaspora David R. Andrews. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©1999. - 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) - Impact, studies in language and society, 1385-7908 ; v. 5 . - Impact, studies in language and society ; 5. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-171) and indexes.

SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE CHANGE IN DIASPORA; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Transliteration Systems and a Note on Format; Permissions; Abstract; Introduction. The Russian Third Wave and Its Language; CHAPTER 1. Fundamentals of Word-Borrowing and Language Contact; CHAPTER 2. Third-Wave Language Attitudes; CHAPTER 3. Third-Wave Loan Words, Neologisms and Other Innovations; CHAPTER 4. Developments in Phonology and Intonation; CHAPTER 5. Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities; References; Index of Subjects; Index of Forms.

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This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American "Third Wave", the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970s under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré Russian with reference to the late Cold-War period which shaped them and the post-Soviet era of today. The book addresses matters of interest not only to Russianists, but to linguists of various theoretical persuasions and to sociologists, anthropologists and cultural historians working on a range of relat


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Russian language--Foreign elements--English.
Russian language--Social aspects--United States.
Russian Americans--Languages.
Linguistic change--Social aspects.
Languages in contact--United States.
Russe (Langue)--Aspect social--États-Unis.
Changement linguistique--Aspect social.
Langues en contact--États-Unis.
Languages in contact.
Linguistic change--Social aspects.
Russian language--Social aspects.
Sprachwandel
Soziolinguistik
Taalcontact.
Russisch.
Engels.
Immigranten.
Taalverandering.


United States.
Slawische Sprachen.


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