%0 Book
%A Agnieszka Stepkowska
%D 2013
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2082-7350
%@ 9783653022919
%T Multilingualism and English
%B The Canton of Zurich as a linguistic paradigm
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-02291-9
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047341
%X This study examines the use of English in Switzerland from a multilingual perspective based on a corpus of 400 interviews collected in the German speaking Canton of Zurich. It presents a framework for explaining the linguistic interaction that arises as a result of the use of a «globalizing» language in a multilingual context. It has given the relationships that obtain between the various Swiss national languages a hierarchical character. The proposed Swiss framework indicates – viewed through a macro-sociolinguistic lens – that the present linguistic situation in Switzerland seems to reflect a growing symbiotic relationship between English and the Swiss vernaculars.
%K Bilingualism, Diglossia, Dialects, Switzerland, Mechanisms of language change, "Globalizing" language, Multilingualism
%G English