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Aims and objectives:
Language debates in Latvia often focus on the role of Latvian as official and main societal language. Yet, Latvian society is highly multilingual, and families with home languages other than Latvian have to choose between different educational trajectories for their children. In this context, this paper discusses the results of two studies which addressed the question of why families with Russian as a home language choose (pre)schools with languages other than Russian as medium of instruction (MOI). The first study analyses family narratives which provide insight into attitudes and practices which lead to the decision to send children to Latvian-MOI institutions. The second study investigates language attitudes and practices by families in the international community of Riga German School.
Methodology:
The paper discusses data gathered during two studies: for the first, semi-structed interviews were conducted with Russian-speaking families who choose Latvian-medium schools for their children. For the second study, a survey was carried out in the community of an international school in Riga, sided by ethnographic observations and interviews with teachers and the school leadership.
Data and analysis:
Interviews and ethnographic observations were subjected to a discourse analysis with a focus on critical events and structures of life trajectory narratives. Survey data were processed following simple statistical analysis and qualitative content analysis.
Findings/conclusions:
Our data reveal that families highly embrace multilingualism and see the development of individual plurilingualism as important for integration into Latvian society as well as for educational and professional opportunities in the multilingual societies of Latvia and Europe. At the same time, multilingualism and multiculturalism, including Russian, are seen as a value in itself. In addition, our studies reflect the bidirectionality of family language policies in interplay with practices in educational institutions: family decisions influence children’s language acquisition at school, but the school also has an impact on the families’ language practices at home. In sum, we argue that educational policies should therefore pay justice to the wishes of families in Latvia to incorporate different language aspects into individual educational trajectories.
Originality:
Language policy is a frequent topic of investigation in the Baltic states. However, there has been a lack in research on family language policy and school choices. In this vein, our paper adds to the understanding of educational choices and language policy processes among Russian-speaking families and the international community in Latvia.
Russisch
(2020)
Sprachentwicklungstest zum Kasus bei den bilingualen Vorschulkindern: Sprachstand Russisch (KT-RUS)
(2020)
Sprachentwicklungstest zum Kasus bei bilingualen Vorschulkindern: Sprachstand Deutsch (KT-DEU)
(2020)
Im allgemeinen ist man sich darüber einig, daß ein Zusammenhang zwischen Informationsstrukturierung (Fokus-Hintergrund-Gliederung, Topik-Kommentar-Gliederung) sowie Akzentuierung und prosodischer Phrasierung besteht (vgl. Hayes/Lahiri 1991). Gut untersucht ist die Beziehung zwischen der Unterteilung von Sätzen in prosodische Phrasen und der Fokusstruktur (vgl. Nespor/Vogel 1986). Dies trifft ebenso auf die Analyse der Akzentpositionen in Verbindung mit der Informationsstruktur zu (Féry 1993). Bezüglich der Annahmen zur prosodischen Phrasierung und ihrem Zusammenhang mit der Akzentplazierung läßt sich ein solcher minimaler Konsens nur schwer feststellen. Übereinstimmung besteht lediglich darin, daß durch Grenzsignale (Pausen, Glottisverschlußinsertion, Grenztone) die prosodische Phrasierung manifestiert wird. Ich möchte hier zeigen, daß zwischen der Akzentplazierung und der prosodischen Phrasierung ebenfalls ein Zusammenhang besteht, und Möglichkeiten erörtern, diese Verbindung sprachübergreifend und experimentell nachzuweisen.
Ich beziehe mich dabei auf Beobachtungen zur Akzentplazierung im Deutschen und Französischen und schlage darauf aufbauend eine Methode zur Determinierung prosodischer Grenzen im Russischen vor.
This paper argues that there is a correlation between functional and purely grammatical patterning in language, yet the nature of this correlation has to be explored. This claim is based on the results of a corpus-driven study of the Slavic aspect, drawing on the socalled Distributional Hypothesis. According to the East-West Theory of the Slavic aspect, there is a broad east-west isogloss dividing the Slavic languages into an eastern group and a western group. There are also two transitional zones in the north and south, which share some properties with each group (Dickey 2000; Barentsen 1998, 2008). The East-West Theory uses concepts of cognitive grammar such as totality and temporal definiteness, and is based on various parameters of aspectual usage in discourse, including contexts such as habituals, general factuals, historical (narrative) present, performatives, sequenced events in the past etc. The purpose of the above-mentioned study is to challenge the semantic approach to the Slavic aspect by comparing the perfective and imperfective verbal aspect on the basis of purely grammatical co-occurrence patterns (see also Janda & Lyashevskaya 2011). The study focused on three Slavic languages: Russian, which, following the East-West Theory, belongs to the eastern group, Czech, which belongs to the western group, and Polish, which is considered as transitional in its aspectual patterning.
In this paper we present the results of an automatic classification of Russian texts into three levels of difficulty. Our aim is to build a study corpus of Russian, in which a L2 student is able to select texts of a desired complexity. We are building on a pilot study, in which we classified Russian texts into two levels of difficulty. In the current paper, we apply the classification to an extended corpus of 577 labelled texts. The best-performing combination of features achieves an accuracy of 0,74 within at most one level difference.
Deutsch-russisches Neologismenwörterbuch. Neuer Wortschatz im Deutschen, 1991-2010. Bd. 1 - 2 (A-Z)
(2016)
Dieses Wörterbuch, das auf dem ersten größeren Neologismenwörterbuch für das Deutsche fußt, schließt eine Lücke in der deutsch-russischen Wörterbuchlandschaft: Es präsentiert dem Benutzer den neuen deutschen Wortschatz, den er in anderen Wörterbüchern meist vergeblich sucht. Enthalten sind fast 2000 neue Wörter (z.B. Kletterwald, scrollen), neue feste Wortverbindungen (z.B. etw. in die Tonne treten, der Drops ist gelutscht) und neue Bedeutungen etablierter Wörter (z.B. halbrund, Stolperstein), von denen rund 1350 umfassend lexikografisch beschrieben sind. Die vielen Verknüpfungen zwischen den Stichwörtern ermöglichen Einblicke in die Vernetztheit des neuen Wortschatzes und leisten so einen wichtigen Beitrag für den Wortschatzerwerb.
Rassmatrivajutsja novye frazeologizmy nemeckogo jazyka i aspekty ich leksikografičeskogo opisanija v „Nemecko-russkom slovare neologizmov“. Obščaja dolja novych frazeologizmov ot obščego količestva neologizmov nemeckogo jazyka v period s 1991 po 2012 gody sostavljaet okolo šesti procentov. K kategorii frazeologizmov v slovare otnosjatsja ustojčivye sočetanija slov raznoj struktury i stepeni idiomatičnosti. Naibolee mnogočislenny frazeologizmy – imennye gruppy, za nimi sledujut glagol’nye gruppy i frazeologizmy-predloženija. Vyjavljajutsja i opisyvajutsja strukturnye i semantičeskie osobennosti frazeologizmov raznych frazovych kategorij. Osveščajutsja osobennosti podači frazeologizmov v slovnike i tipy leksikografičeskoj informacii v strukture slovarnoj stat’i, učityvajuščie specifiku frazeologičeskich neologizmov kak edinic leksikografičeskogo opisanija.