Sociocultural perspectives on language change in diaspora : Soviet immigrants in the United States
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Sociocultural perspectives on language change in diaspora : Soviet immigrants in the United States
（Impact : studies in language and society, v. 5）
J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999
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- : us
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Bibliography: p. [161]-171
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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 detente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigre 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 related topics. No knowledge of the Russian language is assumed on the part of the reader, and all linguistics examples are presented in standard transliteration and fully explicated.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgments
- 2. Transliteration Systems and a Note on Format
- 3. Permissions
- 4. Abstract
- 5. Introduction
- 6. 1. Fundamentals of Word-Borrowing and Language Contact
- 7. 2. Third-Wave Language Attitudes
- 8. 3. Third-Wave Loan Words, Neologisms and Other Innovations
- 9. 4. Developments in Phonology and Intonation
- 10. 5. Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities
- 11. References
- 12. Index of Subjects
- 13. Index of Forms
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