Sociolinguistic Transition in Former Eastern Bloc Countries
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- ISBN 9783631662724
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This volume offers empirical perspectives on the current sociolinguistic situations in former Eastern Bloc countries. Its seventeen chapters analyse phenomena such as language choice, hierarchies and ideologies in multilingualism, language policies, minority languages in new legal, educational, business and migratory contexts, as well as the position of English in the region. The authors use various methodological approaches – including surveys, discourse analyses, descriptions and analyses of linguistic landscapes, and ethnography – in order to deal with sociolinguistic issues in eight countries and seven regions, from Brandenburg, Germany, in the West to Sakhalin, Russia, in the East.
Marián Sloboda is Assistant Professor at the Department of Central European Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Petteri Laihonen is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Anastassia Zabrodskaja is Professor of Estonian as a Second Language at Tallinn University and Senior Research Fellow in Sociolinguistics at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
