Second Language Acquisition in Complex Linguistic Environments: Russian Native Speakers Acquiring Standard and Non-Standard Varieties of German and Cz

ISBN-13: 9783631678510 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 330 str.

Juliane Besters-Dilger; Hana Gladkova

Opis

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."

Spis treści

Russian-speaking immigrants - Residing in the Czech Republic or Germany - Slavic or Non-Slavic language - Acquisition of a related language compared to a non-related one - Influence of language variation in the new environment - Diglossia in the Czech Republic - Diaglossia in Germany

O autorze

Juliane Besters-Dilger is a full professor of Slavonic studies at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg (Germany). Hana Gladkova is a full professor of Slavonic studies at Charles University Prague (Czech Republic).