O pragmatyzmie językowym w Szwajcarii w kontekście języka angielskiego: perspektywa makro-socjolingwistyczna

• Authors: Stępkowska Agnieszka

Title variants

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On language pragmatism in Switzerland in the context of English: A macro-sociolinguistic perspective

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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By adopting the macrolevel approach of both social and linguistic analysis, I intend to explore the problem of language attitudes and language choice at the interface of society and language. The issues connected with language behaviour, i.e. attitudes and reactions of the Swiss towards English, now seem to be ripe for a more detailed study. To this end I have carried out a research that 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.

Keywords

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sociology of language; language attitudes; language pragmatism; Switzerland

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Wydawnictwo UMK
• Journal: Linguistica Copernicana
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 1(9)
• Pages: 291-304

Contributors

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Stępkowska Agnieszka

• Społeczna Akademia Nauk w Warszawie, Instytut Anglistyki