"Globalizing" language
A01=Agnieszka Stepkowska
Author_Agnieszka Stepkowska
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631639207
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2013
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study examines the use of English in Switzerland from a multilingual perspective based on a corpus of 400 interviews collected in the German speaking Canton of Zurich. It presents a framework for explaining the linguistic interaction that arises as a result of the use of a «globalizing» language in a multilingual context. It has given the relationships that obtain between the various Swiss national languages a hierarchical character. The proposed Swiss framework indicates – viewed through a macro-sociolinguistic lens – that the present linguistic situation in Switzerland seems to reflect a growing symbiotic relationship between English and the Swiss vernaculars.
Agnieszka Stępkowska received her PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, in 2004. She is a lecturer at the School of English, the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests focus on translation studies, multilingualism and the sociology of language. She has published a book on English loanwords in Polish naval vocabulary and numerous papers on various topics.
