Language and identity in a transnational context : a sociophonetic study of the Polish of a group of migrants living in the UK

This thesis examines the process of identity formation among a group of 30 young Polish adults who moved to the UK to study and stayed to work. By examining the speakers' self-representations aided by observations from the fieldwork, two distinct sociocultural identities emerge: Polish Poles, w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kozminska, Kinga
Other Authors: Temple, Rosalind
Published: University of Oxford 2016
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730196