Languages in Contact: European Portuguese meets Austrian German

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Abstract

Migrant communities are the perfect stage to observe languages in contact. Austria has a small and recent Portuguese community and this fact allowed us to analyze the behavior of European Portuguese in a German speaking context. Interferences are likely to happen, but are the speakers aware of these? Do they really command their languages separately? What are the strategies they refer to? These and other answers can be found with the present investigation.
Original languageEnglish
Pages48-59
Volume18
No.1
Specialist publicationTodas as letras : revista de língua e literatura
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 602048 Sociolinguistics

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