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Publication details [#44249]

Schüpbach, Doris. 2006. "It's something that's just faded away": how a Melbourne family of Swiss-German background makes sense of language shift. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 180 : 89–104.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
generation2 | language attitude | language shift | language use | migration
Language as a subject
English, Australian | German, Swiss
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper discusses how a Melbourne family of Swiss-German background recalls the language shift from Swiss-German to English and makes sense of it.