Russian-speaking immigrants residing in the Czech Republic or Germany are faced with the challenge of acquiring the Slavic (Czech) or Non-Slavic (German) language of the new environment. This process is influenced by their native language. The volume empirically analyses the acquisition of a related language compared to that of a non- or distantly related one and explores how the non-homogeneous language of the new environment – situation of diglossia in the Czech… (more)
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften (August 23, 2016)
Collection: Linguistik International
Format: EPUB
Page count: 330 pages
Protection: DRM
Language: English