TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agnieszka Stepkowska
PY  - 2013
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2082-7350
SN  - 9783653022919
TI  - Multilingualism and English
T2  - The Canton of Zurich as a linguistic paradigm
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-02291-9
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1047341
N2  - 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.
KW  - Bilingualism, Diglossia, Dialects, Switzerland, Mechanisms of language change, "Globalizing" language, Multilingualism
LA  - English
ER  -