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FIRST LANGUAGE ATTRITION, USE AND MAINTENANCE
THE CASE OF GERMAN JEWS IN ANGLOPHONE COUNTRIES |
| By: |
Monika S. Schmid |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£92.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
902724135X |
| ISBN 13: |
9789027241351 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
7 May, 2002 |
| Series: |
Studies in Bilingualism 24 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
A study of first language attrition based on the Jewish experience in Nazi Germany. It explores how having spent their entire lives in a monolingual environment, the Jews were then brutally excluded from a society, culture and tradition giving rise to a conflicting sense of identity. |
| Synopsis: |
This book is a study of the L1 attrition of German among German Jews who emigrated to anglophone countries under the Nazi regime. It places the study of language attrition within the historical and sociocultural framework of Weimar and Nazi Germany, applying issues of identity and identification to first language loss and maintenance. Morphosyntactic features of German are looked at in free spoken discourse, in an analysis of both 'interferences' or 'errors' and their overall (correct) use. The picture of L1 proficiency which emerges from these investigations is then related to a taxonomy of intensity of persecution, clearly demonstrating this to be the decisive factor in language attrition, while showing other factors such as age at emigration and intermediate use to be inconclusive.In order to give a full and tangible picture of language attrition and maintenance, the book comes with an Audio-CD, featuring excerpts from more than twenty of the interviews analyzed. |
| Illustrations: |
index |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
John Benjamins Publishing Co |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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