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Publication details [#3585]

Gal, Susan. 1979. Language shift: Social determinants of linguistic change in bilingual Austria. Academic Press. xii + 201 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

An ethnographic study of the process of language shift in a Hungarian-German bilingual town in Austria. G. analyzes the process as a result of which German is slowly adopted for most communicative purposes, with code-switching as an intermediate step.

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