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Tosi, Arturo – 2001
This books examines the interrelation between language and society in contemporary Italy and provides an up-to-date account of linguistic diversity, social variation, special codes, and language varieties within Italian society, and in situations of language contact both within and outside Italy. Part 1 covers the evolution and variations of…
Descriptors: Dialects, Diglossia, English, Foreign Countries
Magner, Thomas F. – Canadian Slavic Studies
Yugoslavia, a country with a population of about 20,000,000, has as official languages Macedonian, Slovenian, and Serbo-Croatian. The latter is the cause of much controversy, for while Croatian and Serbian indisputably have a common linguistic base, the political and economic tensions between the two "nationalities" augment disagreement…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Cyrillic Alphabet, Dialect Studies