Language shift in slow motion: evidence from German-Canadian family papers
- Language shift after migration has been reported to occur within three generations. While this pattern holds in many cases there is also some counter evidence. In this paper, family documents from a German immigration community in Canada are investigated to trace individual decisions of language choice that contributed to an extended process of shift taking four generations and more than a century.
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| Author: | Doris Stolberg |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-83849 |
| URL: | http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wila/8/abstract3436.html |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57473-473-7 |
| Parent Title (English): | Selected Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 8) |
| Publisher: | Cascadilla Proceedings Project |
| Place of publication: | Somerville, MA, USA |
| Editor: | Jan Heegård Petersen, Karoline Kühl |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/12/17 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Englisch; Kanada; Migration; Sprachwechsel |
| First Page: | 96 |
| Last Page: | 102 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Deutsche Sprache im Ausland |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Bilingualismus / Mehrsprachigkeit |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Soziolinguistik |
| Program areas: | Lexik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |