Russian-English Code-switching in New York City

ISBN-13: 9783631507513 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 202 str.

Gregor, Esma

Spis treści

Contents: The Field-Work, the Speakers, and the Data - Russians in New York City - Sociolinguistic Background - Russian Bilingualism and Bilinguality - The Search for the Function of Code-choice in Discourse - Analysis and Quantification.

O autorze

The Author: Esma Gregor, born in Berlin, Germany on October 11, 1969, took courses in English, American and Hispanic studies at Humboldt-University, Berlin, receiving an M.A. in 1996. A bilingual herself, the author selected the Russian-English bilingualism of New York City as the topic of her Ph.D. Starting in 1998, she spent a year as a guest student at the New York University linguistics department, and commenced her field-study for what became the basis for her doctoral thesis. Esma Gregor currently lives in New York.