Beschreibung
The book focuses on Russian-Hebrew bilingual speech. It identifies, describes and accounts for diverse types of bilingual varieties spoken in the Russian immigrant community in Israel. Therefore an interdisciplinary approach was chosen, examining the structural aspects of the immigrants’ speech under consideration of their personal social networks.
Autorenportrait
Elena Gasser studied General Lingustics, French Philology and Modern German Literature at the Free University of Berlin. She worked in diverse research projects at the FU Berlin. Currently she is employed as a lecturer at the Pedagogical Academy in Berlin and dedicates herself to the examination of language shift in Assyrian communities in the South Caucasus.
Inhalt
Contents: Russian-Hebrew bilingual speech – Russian immigrant community in Israel – Social network concept – Structural aspects of the immigrants’ speech under consideration of their personal social networks – Language maintenance or shift in the Russian immigrant community – Matrix language turnover – Structural analysis of bilingual data – Diachronic perspective.
