| Language Maintenance - Language Attrition: The Case of Polish Children in Sweden Contributor(s): Grucza, Sambor (Other), Laskowski, Roman (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631626827 ISBN-13: 9783631626825 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $77.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Polish - Language Arts & Disciplines | Study & Teaching - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 491.85 |
| LCCN: 2014046844 |
| Series: Warschauer Studien Zur Germanistik Und Zur Angewandten Lingu |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.03 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |