Agnieszka Stepkowska

Gebundenes Buch

Multilingualism and English

The Canton of Zurich as a linguistic paradigm

Beschreibung

This study examines the use of English in Switzerland from a multilingual perspective based on a corpus of 400 interviews collected in the German speaking Canton of Zurich. It presents a framework for explaining the linguistic interaction that arises as a result of the use of a "globalizing" language in a multilingual context. It has given the relationships that obtain between the various Swiss national languages a hierarchical character. The proposed Swiss framework indicates - viewed through a macro-sociolinguistic lens - that the present linguistic situation in Switzerland seems to reflect a growing symbiotic relationship between English and the Swiss vernaculars.

Autor

Agnieszka St¿pkowska received her PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznä, in 2004. She is a lecturer at the School of English, the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests focus on translation studies, multilingualism and the sociology of language. She has published a book on English loanwords in Polish naval vocabulary and numerous papers on various topics.

Produktdetails

• Warsaw Studies in English Language and Literature 14
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 263920
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9783631639207
• ISBN-10: 3631639201
• Artikelnr.: 37284708