Overview
- Presents an overview of contemporary research on languages, discourses and multilingualism in the Baltic states
- Analyses revealing case studies of language contact in post-Soviet contexts
- Provides fresh insights into social issues and conflicts at the Eastern border of the EU
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Introduction
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Regional Varieties and Minority Languages
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The Integration of the Russian Language and Its Speakers into Baltic Societies
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English and Other Languages in the Globalized Societies of the Baltic States
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Heiko F. Marten is Director of the DAAD Information Centre Riga and Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Latvia and Rēzekne Academy of Technologies, Latvia. His research focuses on language policy, linguistic landscapes, language learning motivation, minorities and discourses on language. He is the author of Sprachenpolitik: Eine Einführung (2016) and co-editor of Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape (2012, with Durk Gorter and Luk Van Mensel).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multilingualism in the Baltic States
Book Subtitle: Societal Discourses and Contact Phenomena
Editors: Sanita Lazdiņa, Heiko F. Marten
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56914-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56913-4Published: 21 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56914-1Published: 03 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 515
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Slavic and Baltic Languages, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Regional and Cultural Studies, Language Policy and Planning, Language Change