Ebook: Sociocultural perspectives on language change in diaspora : Soviet immigrants in the United States
Author: David R Andrews
- Series: Impact studies in language and society 5
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co
- City: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
- Language: English
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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 addressesRead more...