Integration, identity and language maintenance in young immigrants : Russian Germans or German Russians / edited by Ludmila Isurin, Claudia Maria Riehl.

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Intro -- Integration, Identity and Language Maintenance in Young Immigrants -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Russian-Germans: Historical background, language varieties, and language use -- 1. Historical background -- 1.1 First settlements and origins -- 1.2 Development in the 20th century -- 1.3 Development after the perestroika -- 2. Some characteristics of Russian German varieties -- 2.1 Russian German dialects and koines -- 2.2 Transfer from the contact varieties -- 3. Language competence, use and transmission -- 3.1 General background of the study -- 3.2 Self-assessment: Language competence -- 3.3 Language use across generations -- 3.4 Language transmission -- 3.5 Consequences: Language use in the migration context -- 4. Russian Germans and their identity -- 4.1 Identity and mother tongue -- 4.2 Language and group identity -- 5. Discussion -- References -- 2. Ethnic German and Jewish immigrants from post-Soviet countries in Germany -- 1. The immigration of ethnic Germans and Jews from the (former) Soviet Union: History and context -- 2. Identity formation -- 3. Integration prospects -- 3.1 Economic integration -- 3.2 Social integration -- 4. Discussion -- References -- 3. Generation 1.5 of Russian-speaking immigrants in Israel and in Germany -- 1. Juxtaposing the Israeli and German contexts of reception -- 2. The 1.5 immigrant generation: Some generic features -- 3. Mobility tracks of young Russian Israelis -- 4. Cultural consumption and language preferences of the 1.5ers -- 5. Extant German research on the Russian Jewish 1.5ers -- 5.1 Educational challenges faced by immigrant youth -- 5.2 Social mobility of Jewish 1.5ers in Germany -- 6. Initial insights from the German pilot study -- 6.1 Schooling as a venue of social mobility -- 6.2 In search of ethnic and cultural identity.

6.3 Social networks -- 6.4 Attitudes towards native Germans and Aussiedler -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- 4. When networks tell just half the story: Social networks, language and social identity -- 1. Conceptual framework -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Research tools and procedures -- 2.2 Participants -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Social networks within the communities -- 3.2 Reported in-network language use and language-related discourse -- 4. Discussion -- References -- 5. From Russian motherland to German fatherland: Young Russian immigrants in Germany -- 1. Conceptual background -- 2. Present study -- 2.1 Methodology -- 2.2 Results -- 3. Discussion -- References -- 6. Young Russian-German adults 20 years after their repatriation to Germany -- 1. Research background -- 1.1 Bilingualism and multilingualism in children and their educational contexts -- 1.2 Russian as heritage language -- 1.3 Social integration -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Research questions and framework -- 2.2 Participants -- 2.3 Data collection and analysis -- 3. Language competencies assessed on the basis of the anniversary interviews -- 3.1 German proficiency -- general characteristics and self-evaluations -- 3.2 Russian proficiency -- linguistic analysis and self-evaluations -- 4. German society and Russian-Germans -- 5. Places and processes of integration -- 5.1 Family as a place of early integration -- 5.2 School as integration medium -- 5.3 Vocational education as a process of integration -- 5.4 Interactional discrimination as an integration problem -- 5.5 Family, friends and life partners as the personal context of integration -- 6. Discussion and concluding remarks -- References -- 7. Language attitudes and linguistic skills in young heritage speakers of Russian in Germany -- 1. Method -- 1.1 Participants -- 1.2 Materials and procedure -- 2. Language attitudes.

2.1 The affective component of language attitudes -- 2.2 The cognitive component of language attitudes -- 2.3 The behavioral component of language attitudes -- 3. Language skills -- 3.1 Methods for measuring Russian language skills -- 3.2 Self-assessments of linguistic skills -- 3.3 Story-telling of a picture book -- 3.4 Grammaticality Judgments -- 3.5 Correlations between the types of linguistic data -- 4. Relationships between attitudes and linguistic skills in Russian -- 5. Discussion -- References -- 8. Lost in transmission? Family language input and its role for the development of Russian -- 1. Family language policy and heritage language development -- 2. Impact of parental input in heritage language development: Evidence from previous studies -- 3. Research questions of the present study -- 4. Participants and methods of data collection -- 5. Voice Onset Time in Russian and German -- 6. Results -- 6.1 Fortis stops -- 6.2 Lenis stops -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusions and outlook -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Conclusion: Integration, identity, and language maintenance in young immigrants -- 1. Integration, language maintenance and identity: Conclusions from this volume -- Integration -- Language maintenance -- Identity -- 2. Cross-cultural comparison in the study of immigration -- 3. Methodological approaches and their applicability for future studies on young immigrants -- 4. Implications -- References -- Index.

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