Linguistic and Cultural Acquisition in a Migrant Community / / ed. by David Singleton, Vera Regan, Ewelina Debaene.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bidzińska, B.,; Debaene, Ewelina,; Harris, John,; Kopečková, Romana,; Nestor, Niamh,; Regan, Vera,; Singleton, David,; Skrzypek, Agnieszka,; Walsh, Polly,
• HerausgeberIn: Debaene, Ewelina,; Regan, Vera,; Singleton, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Introduction --; 1. Emigration Versus Mobility. The Case of the Polish Community in France and Ireland --; 2. The Bookseller and the Basketball Player: Tales from the French Polonia --; 3. The Positional Distribution of Discourse like – A Case Study of Young Poles in Ireland --; 4. The Polish Diaspora in Austria: Mutual Attitudes, Processes of Integration and Identity Formation Among Immigrant Poles --; 5. Divergence, Convergence and Passing for a Native Speaker: Variations in the Use of English by Polish Migrants in Ireland --; 6. The Direction of Causality in the Relationship Between Phonological Short-term Memory and L2 Lexical Knowledge: The Case of Adult Polish Learners of English in Ireland --; 7. Segmental Acquisition in Polish Child and Adult Learners in Ireland --; 8. Variation in English Lexical Acquisition Among Polish Migrant Children in Ireland
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781847699909; 9783111024738; 9783110663136; 9783110606713
• DOI: 10.21832/9781847699909
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by David Singleton, Vera Regan, Ewelina Debaene.

This book provides a linguistic and cultural profile of the Polish diasporic communities in three different European countries: Ireland, France and Austria. The eight contributing chapters present original research on the acquisition and use of the languages of the respective host communities and also explore related elements of cultural acquisition. A number of aspects of second language acquisition are considered, notably the acquisition of phonology, lexicon and discourse, as well as aspects of sociolinguistic competence. In addition, varying approaches and research methods are reported on, each of which was chosen in consideration of the particular research issue addressed and the particular circumstances under which the research was carried out. These range from psycholinguistic approaches to second language acquisition to variationist approaches, and include both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.