TY - BOOK ID - 161694 TI - Sociocultural perspectives on language change in diaspora : Soviet immigrants in the United States PY - 1999 SN - 9027218358 155619854X 9786612163500 1282163507 9027299323 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : ©1999 John Benjamins Publishing Company, DB - UniCat KW - Russian language KW - English language KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Russian Americans KW - Linguistic change KW - Languages in contact KW - Ethnology KW - Russians KW - Areal linguistics KW - Change, Linguistic KW - Language change KW - Historical linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Slavic languages, Eastern KW - Foreign elements KW - English KW - Social aspects KW - Languages UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:161694 AB - This book is a sociolinguistic examination of the Russian speech of the American "Third Wave", the migration from the Soviet Union which began in the early 1970's under the policy of détente. Within the framework of bilingualism and language contact studies, it examines developments in emigré Russian with reference to the late Cold-War period which shaped them and the post-Soviet era of today. The book addresses matters of interest not only to Russianists, but to linguists of various theoretical persuasions and to sociologists, anthropologists and cultural historians working on a range of... ER -