Second language acquisition in complex linguistic environments

Russian native speakers acquiring standard and non-standard varieties of German and Czech

330 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 Republic, diaglossia in Germany – influences this acquisition. It additionally examines the impact of several sociolinguistic factors on L2 acquisition, especially age.

• Reihe: Linguistik International
• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik Psycholinguistik und Kognitive Linguistik Spracherwerb
• ISBN: 9783631678510
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2016
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Band herausgegeben von: Juliane Besters-Dilger, Hana Gladkova