Publications
Publication details [#53654]
Kittel, Bernhard, Diana Lindner, Sviatlana Tesch and Gerd Hentschel. 2010. Mixed language usage in Belarus: the sociostructural background of language choice. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2010 (206) : 47–71. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study discusses how a mixed Belarusian–Russian language code is widely deployed in the studied Belarusian cities across all educational levels, mainly though in informal (familiar) communication, whilst the use of Russian and Belarusian is reserved for more formal or public interaction.