Anna Verschik
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 247944 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anna Verschik |
| PRENOMES | Anna |
| SOBRENOME | Verschik |
| ASSINATURA | VERSCHIK A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tallinn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3989-0146 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Tõlkides Oleksandr Averbuchi luulet
Translating Oleksandr Averbuch’s poetry: Language, identity, translation strategies This article focuses on the translation of Oleksandr Averbuch’s poetry collection Жидівський король (2021) into Estonian, with the author of the article also serving as its translator. Particular attention is paid to the theoretical aspects of translating literary multilingualism and to a specific variety of Ukrainian used by Ostarbeiters which was developed by th…
Exploring Mixed Copies
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: Recently, contact linguistics has become increasingly interested in multiword units. At the same time, the code-copying framework (CCF) includes the notion of mixed copies (MCs) that are in-between global copies (‘borrowing’) and selective copies (‘structural change’) and illustrate the transition between the lexicon and grammar. The research question is: What types of MCs occur in English-Estonian …
Suržyk as a Transitional Stage from Russian to Ukrainian
This article examines how Ukrainian migrants and war refugees in Finland perceive and use Suržyk, a cluster of intermediate varieties between Ukrainian and Russian, as a transitional stage facilitating the shift from Russian-dominant to Ukrainian-dominant speech. Drawing on 1615 survey responses collected between November 2022 and January 2023, the study reveals that 42 respondents view Suržyk as a bridge that supports the gradual acquisition of …
When family language policy and early bilingualism research intersect
The article discusses family language policy in a family of ethnic Russians in Estonia where the father speaks Russian, and the mother speaks Estonian. This is the case of internalization of Estonian among ethnic Russians, a novel phenomenon in the post-Soviet countries. The data come from family conversations (6 h) and the semi-structured interview with the parents (1.5 h). There are discrepancies between the declared ideologies, management, and…
Yiddish–Lithuanian bilingualism
Aims and Objectives/Purposes/Research Questions: Studies on incomplete first language (L1) acquisition emphasize restricted input, the low prestige of heritage/immigrant/minority languages, and age of acquisition as significant factors contributing to changes in L1. However, it is not always clear whether it is possible to distinguish results of incomplete acquisition and contact-induced language change. This article deals with two Yiddish–Lithua…
Translating Ukrainian Poetry into Estonian
The reaction of Ukrainian poets to the full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 has been remarkable and was noticed all over the world. Understandably, interest towards Ukraine increased, and translation of Ukrainian poetry is one of the ways to learn and to share Ukrainian culture. Estonian is a small language, not at all related to Ukrainian, and until recently, the general public knew little about Ukrainian literature; ne…
Baltic region as a place of contacts
Family Language Policy in the Estonian Diaspora in Finland
The article deals with family language policy (FLP) among Estonian families in Finland. The focus is on language beliefs concerning maintenance of Estonian and Estonian home language (HL) classes provided by municipalities free of charge. Using the classical three-component model of FLP by Spolsky (language beliefs, language management, language practices), the analysis concentrates on language beliefs (the importance of Estonian and HL education…
Frederik H. Bissinger (2021). Family Language Policies and Immigrant Language Maintenance. Lithuanian in Sweden. Stockholm Studies in Baltic Languages 13. Stockholm
English Discourse Markers in Estonian-English Bilingual Blogs and Vlogs
The paper explores English discourse markers (DMs) in bilingual Estonian-English blogs and vlogs. The research questions are: (1) What are the functions of English DMs that appear in Estonian bilingual speech of vloggers and bloggers? (2) Is there any difference between vlogs and blogs as far as English DMs are concerned? 45 blogs and 8 vlogs were analysed (365,973 and 73,858 tokens respectively). The results show that the prevalent type of DMs …
Phonic Convergence in Estonian Yiddish
Multilingualism is a characteristic feature of Yiddish speakers in the Baltic region, and contact-induced language change is natural in this case. To date, some Baltic German impact on the local varieties of Yiddish has been discussed in the literature. This article focuses on the phonic impact of Estonian on Estonian Yiddish. The study is based on acoustic analysis of Estonian Yiddish sound recordings. The North Baltic area forms a separate regi…
Literary multilingualism in translation
Multilingualism in the Estonian Translations of Baltic German Literature / Mitmekeelsusest baltisaksa kirjanduse eestikeelsetes tõlgetes
The study discusses theoretical approaches to translations of literary multilingualism using examples from Estonian translations of Baltic German literature. The settings described in Baltic German literature are typically situated in the Baltic region, allowing the multilingualism in these texts to be interpreted as a sociolinguistic commentary on the period. The study employs terminology rooted in contact linguistics and sociolinguistics, enric…
Yiddish varieties in the Livonian contact area
The aim of this article is to discuss the Yiddish varieties of Courland and Estonia in the general context of the co-territorial languages: Baltic German, Latvian, Livonian, and Estonian. As a rule, discussion of Yiddish in the region is mostly based on the classical descriptions of the Yiddish varieties from the beginning of the 20th century. It is demonstrated that common features in phonology and lexicon of Courland (and Estonian) Yiddish and …
Comprehension of Ukrainian by Estonians via Russian
This study explores how people use and expand their linguistic resources in the situation when they have some proficiency in L2 and try to understand L3 that is related to L2. The focus of the study is on the comprehension of Ukrainian by Estonian L1 speakers via their proficiency in Russian (L2). This situation is labeled as mediated receptive multilingualism. The aim of this research is to investigate the role of cross-linguistic similarity (ob…
Yiddish–Slavic language contact in multilingual songs
Aims and objectives/purposes/research questions: The aim of the article is to describe what language contact phenomena are present. The research questions are as follows: (a) what types of code-switching (CS) are at work; (b) is there any preference for any particular type of CS; and (c) what Jewish (seemingly) monolingual songs in Slavic languages can tell us about contact varieties of Slavic used by Jews. Design/methodology/approach: Collecting…
Usage-based contact linguistics
English-Estonian code-copying
The article focuses on a comparison of English-Estonian code-copying in blogs and in vlogs. This paper applies a usage-based approach, combining a cognitive angle with the code-copying framework. The aim is to provide a holistic view on contact-induced language change by applying bottom-up analysis of naturalistic multilingual language use. In contact linguistic literature it has been observed that there is a preference for insertions vs. alterna…
Mediated receptive multilingualism
This article introduces and defines the concept of mediated receptive multilingualism as a mode of multilingual communication which eases understanding between typologically distant languages through the medium of a language closely related to the target. In an experimental setting, Estonians without previous exposure to Ukrainian were quite successful in understanding Ukrainian texts via their knowledge of Russian. As expected, they made use of …
Metalinguistic comments and multilingual awareness
The paper focuses on the manifestation of multilingual awareness (MLA) and the impact of Estonian in Russian-language blogs by ethnic Russians. MLA can be defined as “an ability to focus on linguistic form and to switch focus between form and meaning” (Jessner, Ulrike. 2014. On multilingual awareness or why the multilingual learner is a specific language learner. In Miroslaw Pawlak & Larissa Aronin (eds.), Essential topics in applied linguistics …
Mitmekeelsus, keelekontaktid ja keeleline teadlikkus
Keeleline teadlikkus (ingl linguistic awareness), mõnikord ka metalingvistiline teadlikkus (ingl metalinguistic awareness) on termin, mis viitab keele formaalsete aspektide teadlikule tajule, tundlikkusele keeleõppes, -õpetamises ja -kasutuses. Huvi keelelise teadlikkuse vastu on tärganud viimasel paaril kümnendil, samuti on suhteliselt hiljuti tekkinud ajakiri Language Awareness ja vastav teadusselts Association for Language Awareness, mille kod…
Yiddish, Jewish Russian, and Jewish Lithuanian in the Former Soviet Union
Innovation and Tradition in Yiddish Educational Programs
This chapter considers the ways that, in Yiddish heritage language (HL) and cultural contexts, innovation is evident when traditions and history are reimagined in new ways, for new users and audiences, and for novel purposes. In diverse contexts, this involves inventive thinking, openness, and risk-taking on the part of program directors, staff, instructors, participants, and students. The chapter discusses the unique features of Yiddish HL educa…
Mixed Copying in Blogs
The paper applies the Code Copying Framework ( ccf ) to Estonian-Russian language contacts in Live Journal blogs. The nature of blogs (an asynchronous, more written-like genre) allows us to look into individual multilingual practices and to discover aspects of contact-induced change that are absent in oral communication (choice of script, rendition of other-language items etc). ccf distinguishes between global copying (akin to code-switching/borr…
Morphology of Estonian items at the interface of Russian-Estonian language contact data
The paper argues that integration of code-switched items into the Matrix Language is not a straightforward process and does not entirely depend on the structural characteristics of the languages involved. Estonian-Russian code-switching is instructive because both languages are rich in inflectional morphology. Full integration of Estonian nouns into the Russian matrix means gender assignment and adding of inflection (case, number, or case and num…
Lingua receptiva (LaRa) - remarks on the quintessence of receptive multilingualism
This article introduces and defines the notion lingua receptiva (LaRa) as a mode of multilingual communication in which interactants employ a language and/or a language variety different from their partner's and still understand each other without the help of any additional lingua franca. The quintessence of lingua receptiva is discussed in terms of pragmatic, psycholinguistic and language psychology approaches to multilingualism. Moreover, the o…
The language situation in Estonia
This article first offers a brief social history of the Estonian language from the early nineteenth century to the present, before concentrating on the present day language situation. The latter is discussed with a focus on the nature of emerging language contacts, on aspects of linguistic creativity, on identity construction as well as on language at the state level (language legislation and integration).⟨p;⟩
Family Language Policy in the Estonian Diaspora in Finland
The article deals with family language policy (FLP) among Estonian families in Finland. The focus is on language beliefs concerning maintenance of Estonian and Estonian home language (HL) classes provided by municipalities free of charge. Using the classical three-component model of FLP by Spolsky (language beliefs, language management, language practices), the analysis concentrates on language beliefs (the importance of Estonian and HL education…
Jewish Russian and the field of ethnolect study
This article demonstrates how the field of Jewish interlinguistics and a case study of Jewish Russian (JR) can contribute to the general understanding of ethnolects. JR is a cluster of post-Yiddish varieties of Russian used as a special in-group register by Ashkenazic Jews in Russia. Differences between varieties of JR may be explained in terms of differing degrees of copying from Yiddish. The case of JR allows the general conclusions that (i) th…
Mixed Copying in Blogs
The paper applies the Code Copying Framework ( ccf ) to Estonian-Russian language contacts in Live Journal blogs. The nature of blogs (an asynchronous, more written-like genre) allows us to look into individual multilingual practices and to discover aspects of contact-induced change that are absent in oral communication (choice of script, rendition of other-language items etc). ccf distinguishes between global copying (akin to code-switching/borr…
Morphology of Estonian items at the interface of Russian-Estonian language contact data
The paper argues that integration of code-switched items into the Matrix Language is not a straightforward process and does not entirely depend on the structural characteristics of the languages involved. Estonian-Russian code-switching is instructive because both languages are rich in inflectional morphology. Full integration of Estonian nouns into the Russian matrix means gender assignment and adding of inflection (case, number, or case and num…
Introduction
Anna Verschik introduces this special issue of Sociolinguistic Studies
Ethnolect debate
This article presents the concept of Jewish Lithuanian as a range of post-Yiddish varieties spoken by some Jews in Lithuania and seeks to synthesise findings in contemporary ethnolect studies and in the field of Jewish language research. The legitimacy of the term ‘ethnolect’ is questioned by some researchers; however, it is argued that contemporary ethnolect research concentrates on postmodern urban immigrant communities in the west, which are v…
Russian–Estonian language contacts, linguistic creativity, and convergence
The paper discusses several phenomena in contemporary Estonian–Russian language contacts with a focus on attitudes, code-switching, convergence and the emergence of new varieties. The contact situation is recent and provides a good opportunity for microsociolinguistic research. The article describes some instances of bilingual linguistic creativity (derivation of new words from Estonian stems with Russian derivational suffixes, use of bilingual h…
Linguistic Biographies of Yiddish Speakers in Estonia
However, in the case of a multilingual the situation is much more complicated. We will argue below that the question concerning a multilingual’s mother tongue cannot be answered in a clear-cut manner. First, multiple definitions of mother tongue are possible and various criteria can be used as a basis. Second, one’s identification can alter over a period of time and at different points a person can have different mother tongues
Long live the English college!’ An episode from the history of Jewish education in Estonia
The Yiddish language in Estonia
(1999). The Yiddish language in Estonia: Past and present. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 117-128
Some aspects of the multilingualism of Estonian Jews
The topic ofthe present ar fiele is the socio-cultural history of Estonian Jews as well as main patterns of their linguistic behavior. This atypical Jewish Community definitely deserves more scholarly attention than it has received. It is important to stress that not all Jews living in Estonia today are considered to be Estonian Jews. Only those who were born and/or whose socialization took place in independent Estonia (1918-1940) and their desce…
Pent Nurmekund as the translator of Yiddish folksongs into Estonian
One can often hear the question: are there any Jews in Estonia at all? And if there are, is there any reason to speak about Estonian Jewry in the sense we speak about Polish, Lithuanian, Galatian Jewry? Indeed, Estonia has never been a “traditional” land of Jews: during the Russian rule it did not belong to the so-called pale of settlement. Estonia never met with the “Jewish question”, there was no ground either for everyday or for official antis…
The Yiddish language in Estonia
(1999). The Yiddish language in Estonia: Past and present. Journal of Baltic Studies: Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 117-128
Some aspects of the multilingualism of Estonian Jews
The topic ofthe present ar fiele is the socio-cultural history of Estonian Jews as well as main patterns of their linguistic behavior. This atypical Jewish Community definitely deserves more scholarly attention than it has received. It is important to stress that not all Jews living in Estonia today are considered to be Estonian Jews. Only those who were born and/or whose socialization took place in independent Estonia (1918-1940) and their desce…
Long live the English college!’ An episode from the history of Jewish education in Estonia
Russian-Estonian Contacts and Mechanisms of Interference
The article describes how various mechanisms of interference proposed by Thomason function in Russian-Estonian contact situation in present-day Estonia. In addition to code-switching, borrowing and L1 transfer Thomason considers code alternation, passive knowledge, "negotiation" and deliberate change as mechanisms of interference. The sociolinguistic situation in Estonia has radically changed since late 1980s, so that more and more Russian-speake…
An ‘outsider’ lends support to Yiddishism in Estonia
A la difference de Lituanie et Lettonie, la communaute juive en Estonie est peu nombreuse et peu representative. L'A. nous fait decouvrir le discours du linguiste Paul Ariste, datant de 1933, ou ce dernier fait l'apologie de la langue yiddish, consideree a l'epoque comme un jargon
Linguistic Biographies of Yiddish Speakers in Estonia
However, in the case of a multilingual the situation is much more complicated. We will argue below that the question concerning a multilingual’s mother tongue cannot be answered in a clear-cut manner. First, multiple definitions of mother tongue are possible and various criteria can be used as a basis. Second, one’s identification can alter over a period of time and at different points a person can have different mother tongues
An outsider’s support of Yiddishism in the Baltic States
The struggle between Yiddishism and Hebraism in the interwar Baltic states still awaits systematic investigation and requires the use of sources in many languages. Paul Ariste (1905–1990), a famous Estonian linguist and polyglot, learned Yiddish as a young man and remained fascinated with the language for his whole life. This case study of non-Jewish support of Yiddishism in Estonia examines the arguments Ariste used in a Yiddish-language speech …
Estonian Compound Nouns and Their Equivalents in the Local Variety of Russian
Aspects of Russian-Estonian codeswitching
The article describes codeswitching (CS) as a new phenomenon in modern Russian-Estonian contacts. The author believes that a microsociolinguistic approach developed by Auer, Tabouret-Keller, Le Page, and others allows a flexible analysis and leaves space for linguistic creativity. CS in the post-Soviet setting has not been investigated, and this particular case could contribute to a general understanding of CS patterns. During the past decade bot…
Russian–Estonian language contacts, linguistic creativity, and convergence
The paper discusses several phenomena in contemporary Estonian–Russian language contacts with a focus on attitudes, code-switching, convergence and the emergence of new varieties. The contact situation is recent and provides a good opportunity for microsociolinguistic research. The article describes some instances of bilingual linguistic creativity (derivation of new words from Estonian stems with Russian derivational suffixes, use of bilingual h…
The language situation in Estonia
This article first offers a brief social history of the Estonian language from the early nineteenth century to the present, before concentrating on the present day language situation. The latter is discussed with a focus on the nature of emerging language contacts, on aspects of linguistic creativity, on identity construction as well as on language at the state level (language legislation and integration).⟨p;⟩
Research into Multilingualism in Estonia
The present paper concentrates on several issues relevant to research into multilingualism in Estonia. It is argued that a macrosociolinguistic approach is insufficient when not counterbalanced with microsociolinguistic studies (case studies of actual linguistic behaviour, linguistic creativity, mechanisms and practices of multilingual communication, construction of immediate and long-term strategies of multilingual communication, etc). Furthermo…
Convergence in Estonia's Russian
The topic of the current article is convergence in Estonia's Russian (copying of Estonian directional/static/separative verbal government) and its perception by two different sets of Russian speakers. The convergent forms in question are viewed in the terms of code-copying framework. There are clear rules of verbal government defining which Estonian verb requires which case (separative, static or directional). Russian verbs require mostly preposi…
Multiple Language Contact in Tallinn
This paper describes multiple Estonian–Russian language contacts in Estonia. For synchronic microsociolinguistic research it is usual to concentrate on the impact of a sociolinguistically dominant language A on an immigrant/minority language B. In the Soviet setting, the dominant language was usually Russian (despite Russians being a minority). The situation in Estonia differs from both the above-mentioned cases. In bilingual Tallinn, speakers of…
Recent contributions to Estonian sociolinguistics
Ülle Rannut (2005). Keelekeskkonna mõju vene õpilaste eesti keele omandamisele ja integratsioonile Eestis [Impact of the language environment on integration and Estonian language acquisition of Russian-speaking children in Estonia] (= Tallinn University Dissertations on Humanities 14). Tallinn: Tallinn University Press. Pp. 215. ISSN 1406-4391. ISBN 9984-48-394-9 (paperback). Anastassia Zabrodskaja (2005). Vene-eesti koodivahetus Kohtla-Järve ven…
Jewish Russian and the field of ethnolect study
This article demonstrates how the field of Jewish interlinguistics and a case study of Jewish Russian (JR) can contribute to the general understanding of ethnolects. JR is a cluster of post-Yiddish varieties of Russian used as a special in-group register by Ashkenazic Jews in Russia. Differences between varieties of JR may be explained in terms of differing degrees of copying from Yiddish. The case of JR allows the general conclusions that (i) th…
Laada Bilaniuk, Contested tongues
Laada Bilaniuk, Contested tongues: Language politics and cultural correction in Ukraine. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 230. Pb $ 24.95, Hb. $59.95. This is a comprehensive ethnographic study of an immensely complex language situation in the post-Soviet Ukraine. Bilaniuk discusses subtle matters, such as language ideologies, the struggle over status, compromise strategies, and highly stigmatized mixed varieties called…
Contacts of Russian in the post-Soviet space
Keeleliste elulugude uurimisvõimalusi
Recently the investigation of linguistic biographies has become popular among linguists for several reasons. Instead of studying formally-oriented, traditional approaches to second language acquisition and language learning, such research focuses on an individual’s conceptualisation of languages, language acquisition and living with and among multiple languages. Linguistic biographies can be either oral or written narratives, elicited by a resear…
Ethnolect debate
This article presents the concept of Jewish Lithuanian as a range of post-Yiddish varieties spoken by some Jews in Lithuania and seeks to synthesise findings in contemporary ethnolect studies and in the field of Jewish language research. The legitimacy of the term ‘ethnolect’ is questioned by some researchers; however, it is argued that contemporary ethnolect research concentrates on postmodern urban immigrant communities in the west, which are v…
Lingua receptiva (LaRa) - remarks on the quintessence of receptive multilingualism
This article introduces and defines the notion lingua receptiva (LaRa) as a mode of multilingual communication in which interactants employ a language and/or a language variety different from their partner's and still understand each other without the help of any additional lingua franca. The quintessence of lingua receptiva is discussed in terms of pragmatic, psycholinguistic and language psychology approaches to multilingualism. Moreover, the o…
Practising receptive multilingualism
The present article deals with receptive multilingualism (RM) in communication between Estonian salespersons and Finnish customers in Tallinn. A historical background and general description of this communication is provided. It is argued that RM is an established practice in this type of communication and that a nation-state is not necessarily marginalizing communication that deviates from monolingual norms. The notion of mutual intelligibility …
Receptive multilingualism – introduction
Due to the new agenda on multilingualism of the European Commission, the High Level Group on Multilingualism (2007) recommended the study of receptive multilingualism (or intercomprehension) and investigation of communication strategies used by speakers of Scandinavian, Romance and Slavonic languages to improve intra-European communication. In this special issue, we present a series of articles that report on investigations about receptive multil…
Keelekontaktide uurimise võlu (ja kasu)
1. SISSEJUHATUS Tuleb igati nõustuda Zoltán Dörnyei (2011: 310) arutlusega, et uurimissuuna, -küsimuse, -strateegia, -meetodi jms valik sõltub uurija isikust. Poolnaljatlemisi kirjutab ta vestlusest kolleeg Kathy Daviesega, kus viimane nentis, et kvalitatiivsete ja kvantitatiivsete meetodite viljelejad on erinevat tüüpi inimesed. Z. Dörnyei märkab, et mida rohkem ta uurib ja mida rohkem kogemusi tal tekib, [...]
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