36.2208, Books: Linguistic Dynamics in Heritage Speakers: Allen, Keller, Alexiadou, Wiese (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 17-Jul-2025
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [support at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Linguistic Dynamics in Heritage Speakers: Allen, Keller, Alexiadou, Wiese (eds.) (2025)


Title: Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers
Subtitle: Insights from the RUEG group
Series Title: Current Issues in Bilingualism
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/473

Editor(s): Shanley E. M. Allen, Mareike Keller, Artemis Alexiadou,
Heike Wiese

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Abstract:

This collective volume investigates linguistic dynamics in language
contact, focusing on heritage speakers. The chapters provide new
insights into the role of speaker repertoires and the distinction
between contact-induced change and language-internal variation by
reporting on corpus-linguistic studies across different communicative
situations in heritage and majority languages. Conducted in the
context of the DFG Research Unit “Emerging Grammars in Language
Contact Situations” (FOR 2537), the studies focus on bilingual
adolescent and adult speakers of German, Greek, Russian and Turkish as
heritage languages, and of English and German as majority languages,
and on monolingually raised adolescent and adult speakers of all five
languages. Crucially, they are not restricted to standard language,
but target broader speaker repertoires that cover informal as well as
formal settings in both spoken and written modes. The contributions
are united by their positive perspective on language contact and
multilingual speakers, a comparative approach across several heritage
and majority languages, and a shared methodology that captures
variation within repertoires for both heritage speakers and
monolinguals. The chapters take various theoretical standpoints,
highlighting different facets of the data as well as its potential for
enhancing our understanding of language contact and language
variation.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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