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Publication details [#53014]

Mikolič, Vesna. 2010. Culture and language awareness in the multicultural environment of Slovene Istria. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (3) : 637–649.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | ethnicity | intercultural communication | language and culture | language attitude

Language as a subject

Italian | Slovene

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Focusing on the interethnic/intercultural attitudes of the Slovene majority towards the autochthonous Italian minority population in Slovene Istria, this study argues that positive attitudes towards the second language and culture, are compatible with positive attitudes towards the mother tongue and culture.