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

Besters-dilger, Juliane (EDT); Gladkova, Hana (EDT)

ISBN 10: 3631678517 / ISBN 13: 9783631678510

Published by Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Second Language Acquisition in Complex Linguistic Environments : Russian Native Speakers Acquiring Standard and Non-Standard Varieties of German and Czech
• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631678517
• ISBN 13: 9783631678510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).