Marginal Linguistic Identities

Studies in Slavic Contact and Borderland Varieties. Edited by Dieter Stern and Christian Voss.

The collection of 16 papers focuses primarily on cultural and linguistic hybridity in contexts of marginalization. Special attention is given to the language-identity nexus. All analyses are based on field research covering the spectrum from largescale questionnaire elicitation to participant observation. The volume is structured thematically, dealing withas diverse topics as cultural hybridity, linguistic identity in borderland communities, language death and genesis, code-mixing, as well as dialect shift under conditions of sociopolitical upheaval. Among the languages treated are Kashubian, Banat Bulgarian, Aegean Macedonian, Slovene, non-standard and contact varieties of Russian (Karelian-Russian, Old settlers’ Russian, Russian lexifier pidgins and Russian foreigner talk), mixed lects (Surzhyk and Trasianka), and standard-dialect-continua in Ex-Yugoslavia. VI,274 Seiten mit 30 Abb., broschiert (Eurolinguistische Arbeiten; Band 3/Harrassowitz Verlag 2006)