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Publication details [#61673]

Forsman, Ludvig. 2016. Language shift from a nonspeaker perspective: Themes in the accounts of linguistic practices of first-generation non-Swedish speakers in Gammalsvenskby, Ukraine. Language in Society 45 (3) : 375–396.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | agency | constraints on variability | language shift | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Swedish | Ukrainian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

First-generation non-Swedish speakers regard the Gammalsvenskby traditionally Swedish-speaking community's collective language shift from Swedish to Ukrainian, as mostly pragmatic evolution, though some also mention external coercion as factor.