Adamou, Evangelia
Understanding Language Contact (Understanding Language)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780367766597
- author:
- Adamou, Evangelia
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Routledge
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.2 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Language Arts, Linguistics,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Understanding Language Contact offers a fresh perspective on bilingualism and language contact. This book explores how languages interact and change over time, considering speech production and comprehension, language diffusion across different networks, and historical outcomes of contact-induced language change. By drawing on concepts from bilingualism and sociolinguistics, the authors shed new light on traditional contact linguistics. The book features examples from a range of contact languages, including Creoles and pidgins, Indigenous, minority, and heritage languages, mixed languages, and immigrants' linguistic practices. With exercises to test understanding and suggestions for further reading, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students approaching bilingualism and language contact for the first time. Written by three experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Understanding Language Contact provides a comprehensive introduction to contact linguistics, presented in an accessible and empirically grounded way.
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