Singleton / Regan / Debaene Linguistic and Cultural Acquisition in a Migrant Community

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84769-991-6
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 69, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Second Language Acquisition

This book provides a linguistic and cultural profile of the Polish diasporic communities in three different European countries: Ireland, France and Austria. The eight contributing chapters present original research on the acquisition and use of the languages of the respective host communities and also explore related elements of cultural acquisition. A number of aspects of second language acquisition are considered, notably the acquisition of phonology, lexicon and discourse, as well as aspects of sociolinguistic competence. In addition, varying approaches and research methods are reported on, each of which was chosen in consideration of the particular research issue addressed and the particular circumstances under which the research was carried out. These range from psycholinguistic approaches to second language acquisition to variationist approaches, and include both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singleton, David

Regan, Vera

Debaene, Ewelina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

D. Singleton & V. Regan: Introduction

E. Debaene: Emigration Versus Mobility: The Case of the Polish Community in France and Ireland

V. Regan: The Bookseller and the Basketball player: Tales from the French Polonia

N. Nestor: The Positional Distribution of Discourse Like - A Case Study of Young Poles in Ireland

B. Bidzinska: The Polish Diaspora in Austria: Identity, Integrations and Attitudes Towards Native Language and Culture

E. Debaene & J. Harris: Divergence, Convergence and Passing for a Native Speaker: Variations in Use of English by Polish Migrants in Ireland.

A. Skrzypek: The Direction of Causality in the Relationship Between Phonological Short-term Memory and L2 Lexical Knowledge: The Case of Adult Polish Learners of English in Ireland.

R. Kopecková: Segmental Acquisition in Polish Child and Adult Learners in Ireland

P. Walsh & D.Singleton: Variation in English Lexical Acquisition Among Polish Migrant Children in Ireland

Über Autor(innen)

Singleton, David
David Singleton is Fellow Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Professor  Emeritus, University of Pannonia, Hungary and Professor, University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland. He is the author of numerous monographs and textbooks, including Key Topics in Second Language Acquisition (2014, with Vivian Cook, Multilingual Matters) and Beyond Age Effects in Instructional L2 Learning (2017, with Simone Pfenninger, Multilingual Matters).

David Singleton is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, where he is Professor of Applied Linguistics. He also holds the title of Research Professor at the University of Pannonia. He has served as President of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, as Secretary General of the International Association of Applied Linguistics and as President of the European Second Language Association.

Vera Regan is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics at University College Dublin. She is Chevalier de l’ordre des Palmes Académiques and has served as President of the European Second Language Association, President of the Association for French Language Association, and President of the Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland.

Ewelina Debaene holds a PhD in English Applied Linguistics from Warsaw University (2005). She has worked as a Lecturer in Polish Language and Culture at Trinity College Dublin and is currently delivering a series of lectures at Marii Curie-Sklodowska University and the Medical University of Lublin.