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Publication details [#7832]

Raith, Joachim. 1977. Pennsylvania German - American English bilingualism: A case study. In Molony, Carol H., Helmut Zobl and Wilfried Stölting, eds. Deutsch im Kontakt mit anderen Sprachen/German in contact with other languages. Scriptor. pp. 104–128.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | language interference

Language as a subject

English, American | German, Pennsylvania

Annotation

On the domains in which Pennsylvania German still functions (in addition to American English) as a vehicle of communication, the domains in which its communicative function has broken down, and problems of code switching and linguistic interference or language transference.