Sociolinguistic transition in former Eastern Bloc countries : two decades after the regime change / Marián Sloboda, Petteri Laihonen, Anastassia Zabrodskaja (eds).

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English
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  • Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, [2016]
  • ©2016
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494 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Introduction: What transition, which sociolinguistics? / Petteri Laihonen, Anastassia Zabrodskaja & Marián Sloboda
    • Treasure Island at the turn of the millennium: the socioeconomic and sociolinguistic situation on Sakhalin, Russia / Ekaterina Gruzdeva
    • The Chuvash language in the Chuvash Republic: an example of the rapid decline of one of Russia's major languages / Hèctor Alòs i Font
    • Multilingualism in highland Daghestan throughout the 20th century / Nina Dobrushina
    • Sociolinguistic transition in a former GDR region: multilingual Brandenburg and its challenges / Verena Mezger
    • Political transformation as a trigger for a sociolinguistic revolution in post-socialist Poland: English and its rising power / Krzysztof Przygoński
    • Transition to super-diversity in the Czech Republic: its emergency and resistance / Marián Sloboda
    • Hungarians in Transylvania: language policy and mainstream language ideologies in Romania / Attila Benö & János Péntek
    • The sociolinguistic transition of the discourse of nationalism in Serbia from Tito to neoliberal crash in the 2000s / Jelena Timotijević
    • State policies and institutional language choice: the vitality of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian in higher education / Birute Klaas-Lang
    • Changes in the social value of languages in urban areas of Lithuania, 1990-2010 / Meilutė Ramonienė & Loreta Vilkienė
    • Post-Soviet multilingualism: code-switching in the Polish community in Lithuania / Brigita Séguis
    • Multilingualism on the periphery: valuing languages in south-eastern Estonia / Kadri Koreinik
    • Transitions in the language policy of Ukraine (1989-2014) / István Csernicskó & Victória Ferenc
    • Language situation in post-Soviet Kyiv: Ukrainian and Russian in the linguistic landscape and communicative practices / Olga Ivanova
    • Ethnic minorities in Kazakhstan: analysis of language preferences among high school students / Sholpan Zharkynbekova & Damira Akynova
    • The role of English language in the context of new language policy implementation in Kazakhstan / Sholpan Zharkynbekova & Aliya Aimoldina
    • Linguistic diversity and business communication in today's Kazakhstan / Maganat Shegebayev.
    ISBN
    • 9783631662724 ((hardback))
    • 3631662726 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016025728
    OCLC
    956692532
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