Dialects Converging: Rural Speech in Urban Norway (Oxford Studies in Language Contact)

Dialects Converging: Rural Speech in Urban Norway (Oxford Studies in Language Contact)

by PaulKerswill (Author)

Synopsis

How and why do adults modify their language when they move to a new area? In this detailed study of rural dialect users who have moved to the Norwegian city of Bergen, Paul Kerswill throws light on this widespread phenomenon.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 24 Nov 1994

ISBN 10: 0198248261
ISBN 13: 9780198248262