›Linguistische Grenzschaft‹ als eine analytische Kategorie

Sprachkontakt des deutsch-polnischen Grenzgebietes

By (author) Barbara Alicja Jańczak

Book cover: ›Linguistische Grenzschaft‹ als eine analytische Kategorie

Extent: 413 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: German Studies, Language & Linguistics, Slavic Studies

Series: Interdisziplinare Verortungen der Angewandten Linguistik

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(August 2024)

ISBN: 9783847117230

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $82.00

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Barbara Alicja Janczak widmet sich der Erforschung des Sprachkontaktes an der deutsch-polnischen Grenze. Besonders aus sprachwissenschaftlicher Perspektive ist diese Grenze ein hochst interessanter Untersuchungsort, der sich durch eine doppelte sprachliche Diskontinuitat auszeichnet (vgl. Kimura 2013, 2017; Kamusella & Nomachi 2014).


Barbara Alicja Janczak is dedicated to the study of language contact on the German-Polish border. Especially from the perspective of linguistics, the German-Polish border is a highly interesting object of study. First, this border is characterized by a double linguistic discontinuity (cf. Kimura 2013, 2017, Kamusella & Nomachi 2014). By describing and analyzing the communication strategies of the inhabitants and the communication routines of the traders of the Polish-German borderland, the author wishes to fill a research gap regarding the study of language contact in border areas, and especially on the German-Polish border. Although the book is a linguistic treatise, it is devoted to the study of German-Polish language contact in a multidisciplinary view. The empirical data were collected as part of a research project on language contact and bilingualism in the German-Polish border region. The analyzed content touches the fields of applied linguistics, including interlinguistics, contrastive linguistics, multilingualism research, sociolinguistics, cultural studies, and broadly defined border studies.

  • By (author) Barbara Alicja Jańczak