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Publication details [#27651]

Stoessel, Saskia. 2002. Investigating the role of social networks in language maintenance and shift. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (153) : 93–131.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
language maintenance | language shift | social network
Language as a subject
Chinese | English, American | German | Greek | Japanese | Polish | Spanish | Swedish
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0165-2516
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper examines the impact of social networks on L1 maintenance and shift in ten educated, English-proficient, ethnically isolated immigrant women in the U.S.