LINGUIST List 9.1816

Tue Dec 22 1998

TOC: Intern. Journal of the Sociology of Language

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1. Christoph Eyrich, Intern. Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) 133 (1998)

 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
	 Issue 133 (1998)

 Americans in Europe - A Sociolinguistic Perspective:
 Probes in Northern and Western Europe
 Edited by Gabrielle Varro and Sally Boyd

		Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York

This issue looks into the daily lives of Americans in Europe, the
contacts they establish as permanent residents, how they cope with
their new languages, whether they maintain English and transmit it to
their children, how attitudes and self-perceptions change over time
according to national, social, and family contexts.

It is a unique attempt to analyze the sociological, historical,
political, and linguistic backdrop against which their experience
should be understood: whether living as part of the local scenery
(`mixed' couples) or as Americans in residence, they are individuals
who in some instances are seen to reflect the particular status of the
US in the world.

 Contents

Gabrielle Varro and 
Sally Boyd .................... Introduction. Probing the background

Sally Boyd .................... North Americans in the Nordic region: 
 elite bilinguals?

Sirkku Latomaa ................ English in contact with `the most difficult
 language in the world': the linguistic 
 situation of Americans living in Finland

Elizabeth Lanza ............... Raising children bilingually in Norway

Pierre-Don Giancarli .......... Equilinguisme ou dominance? Le bilingualisme
 d'enfants de couples franco-americains 
 en France et en Angleterre

Gabrielle Varro ............... Does bilingualism survive the second 
 generation? Three generations of French-
 American families in France

Susan Fries ................... Different phases: a personal case study in
 language adjustment and children's 
 bilingualism

David Antal ................... A linguistic odyssey: one family's experience
 with language shift and and cultural identity
 in Germany and France

Anne-Sophie Perriaux .......... Le qualificatif `americain' dans
 quelques textes francais (1975-1990)

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