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Publication details [#58427]

Nagy, Naomi, Joanna Chociej and Michol F. Hoffman. 2014. Analyzing Ethnic Orientation in the quantitative sociolinguistic paradigm. Language & Communication 35 : 9–26.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
immigrant | language use | research methods | sociolinguistics | variability
Language as a subject
Chinese, Cantonese | English, Canadian | Italian | Polish | Russian | Ukrainian
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study argues that ethnic orientation is a vital factor in shaping variation in Toronto's Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Cantonese Heritage Language communities. Their variation should not be uniquely ascribed to subtractive processes such as partial acquisition or debilitation.