LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE - LANGUAGE ATTRITION by Roman Laskowski ( 9783631626825 )

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Title:

LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE - LANGUAGE ATTRITION
THE CASE OF POLISH CHILDREN IN SWEDEN

By:

Roman Laskowski

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

3631626827

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9783631626825

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Publisher:

PETER LANG AG

Pub. date:

29 December, 2014

Series:

Warschauer Studien zur Germanistik und zur Angewandten Linguistik 20

Pages:

238

Description:

The book describes the factors influencing the maintenance of Polish by the second generation of emigrants in Sweden. It indicates the systemic mechanisms governing the acquisition of Polish by a child in a bilingual setting. Particular attention is given to the acquisition of the category of case.

Synopsis:

The monograph, based on broad studies into the Polish diaspora in Sweden, provides a picture of the social factors influencing the maintenance of the heritage language and culture by the second generation of emigrants. The author's main objective, however, is to discover the systemic mechanisms underlying language acquisition by children in a bilingual setting and to investigate the influence of the interference from the dominant language on the acquisition of Polish. A particular attention is devoted to the category of case, which is absent from Swedish. Although it, generally, represents a description of a particular linguistic material, in fact the book addresses problems of the theory of language acquisition. The results and conclusions enable a better understanding of the universal semiotic and psychological principles that motivate the structure of the grammatical system of a natural language.

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Switzerland

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Peter Lang AG

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