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Multilingualism and English: The Canton of Zurich as a linguistic paradigm: 14 New Edition
Author(s): Agnieszka Stepkowska (Author)
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date: 22 Feb. 2013
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 414 pages
- ISBN-10: 3631639201
- ISBN-13: 9783631639207
Book Description
This study examines the use of English in Switzerland from a multilingual perspective based on a corpus of 400 interviews collected in the German speaking Canton of Zurich. It presents a framework for explaining the linguistic interaction that arises as a result of the use of a «globalizing» language in a multilingual context. It has given the relationships that obtain between the various Swiss national languages a hierarchical character. The proposed Swiss framework indicates – viewed through a macro-sociolinguistic lens – that the present linguistic situation in Switzerland seems to reflect a growing symbiotic relationship between English and the Swiss vernaculars.
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About the Author
Agnieszka Stępkowska received her PhD from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, in 2004. She is a lecturer at the School of English, the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests focus on translation studies, multilingualism and the sociology of language. She has published a book on English loanwords in Polish naval vocabulary and numerous papers on various topics.
