Integration, identity and language maintenance in young immigrants : Russian Germans or German Russians / edited by Ludmila Isurin, Claudia Maria Riehl.

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Other Authors:	Isurin, Ludmila (Editor), Riehl, Claudia M. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Series:	Impact, studies in language and society ; 44.
Subjects:	Linguistic minorities > Germany. Intercultural communication. Language and culture. Language maintenance > Germany. Code switching (Linguistics) Russians > Germany > Ethnic identity. Jews > Germany > Identity. Russians > Germany > Languages. Jews > Germany > Languages. Russians > Migrations. Jews > Migrations. Citizenship > Germany. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture. Emigration and immigration Intercultural communication Jews Jews > Languages Jews > Migrations Language and culture Language maintenance Linguistic minorities Russians Russians > Migrations Germany > Emigration and immigration. Russia > Emigration and immigration. Germany Russia
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Table of Contents:

Intro
Integration, Identity and Language Maintenance in Young Immigrants
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
1. Russian-Germans: Historical background, language varieties, and language use
1. Historical background
1.1 First settlements and origins
1.2 Development in the 20th century
1.3 Development after the perestroika
2. Some characteristics of Russian German varieties
2.1 Russian German dialects and koines
2.2 Transfer from the contact varieties
3. Language competence, use and transmission
3.1 General background of the study
3.2 Self-assessment: Language competence
3.3 Language use across generations
3.4 Language transmission
3.5 Consequences: Language use in the migration context
4. Russian Germans and their identity
4.1 Identity and mother tongue
4.2 Language and group identity
5. Discussion
References
2. Ethnic German and Jewish immigrants from post-Soviet countries in Germany
1. The immigration of ethnic Germans and Jews from the (former) Soviet Union: History and context
2. Identity formation
3. Integration prospects
3.1 Economic integration
3.2 Social integration
4. Discussion
References
3. Generation 1.5 of Russian-speaking immigrants in Israel and in Germany
1. Juxtaposing the Israeli and German contexts of reception
2. The 1.5 immigrant generation: Some generic features
3. Mobility tracks of young Russian Israelis
4. Cultural consumption and language preferences of the 1.5ers
5. Extant German research on the Russian Jewish 1.5ers
5.1 Educational challenges faced by immigrant youth
5.2 Social mobility of Jewish 1.5ers in Germany
6. Initial insights from the German pilot study
6.1 Schooling as a venue of social mobility
6.2 In search of ethnic and cultural identity.
6.3 Social networks
6.4 Attitudes towards native Germans and Aussiedler
7. Conclusion
References
4. When networks tell just half the story: Social networks, language and social identity
1. Conceptual framework
2. Methodology
2.1 Research tools and procedures
2.2 Participants
3. Results
3.1 Social networks within the communities
3.2 Reported in-network language use and language-related discourse
4. Discussion
References
5. From Russian motherland to German fatherland: Young Russian immigrants in Germany
1. Conceptual background
2. Present study
2.1 Methodology
2.2 Results
3. Discussion
References
6. Young Russian-German adults 20 years after their repatriation to Germany
1. Research background
1.1 Bilingualism and multilingualism in children and their educational contexts
1.2 Russian as heritage language
1.3 Social integration
2. Methodology
2.1 Research questions and framework
2.2 Participants
2.3 Data collection and analysis
3. Language competencies assessed on the basis of the anniversary interviews
3.1 German proficiency
general characteristics and self-evaluations
3.2 Russian proficiency
linguistic analysis and self-evaluations
4. German society and Russian-Germans
5. Places and processes of integration
5.1 Family as a place of early integration
5.2 School as integration medium
5.3 Vocational education as a process of integration
5.4 Interactional discrimination as an integration problem
5.5 Family, friends and life partners as the personal context of integration
6. Discussion and concluding remarks
References
7. Language attitudes and linguistic skills in young heritage speakers of Russian in Germany
1. Method
1.1 Participants
1.2 Materials and procedure
2. Language attitudes.
2.1 The affective component of language attitudes
2.2 The cognitive component of language attitudes
2.3 The behavioral component of language attitudes
3. Language skills
3.1 Methods for measuring Russian language skills
3.2 Self-assessments of linguistic skills
3.3 Story-telling of a picture book
3.4 Grammaticality Judgments
3.5 Correlations between the types of linguistic data
4. Relationships between attitudes and linguistic skills in Russian
5. Discussion
References
8. Lost in transmission? Family language input and its role for the development of Russian
1. Family language policy and heritage language development
2. Impact of parental input in heritage language development: Evidence from previous studies
3. Research questions of the present study
4. Participants and methods of data collection
5. Voice Onset Time in Russian and German
6. Results
6.1 Fortis stops
6.2 Lenis stops
7. Discussion
8. Conclusions and outlook
Acknowledgments
References
Conclusion: Integration, identity, and language maintenance in young immigrants
1. Integration, language maintenance and identity: Conclusions from this volume
Integration
Language maintenance
Identity
2. Cross-cultural comparison in the study of immigration
3. Methodological approaches and their applicability for future studies on young immigrants
4. Implications
References
Index.

Integration, identity and language maintenance in young immigrants : Russian Germans or German Russians / edited by Ludmila Isurin, Claudia Maria Riehl.

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