Document Type
Book Review
Version
Publisher's PDF
Publication Title
Language in Society
Volume
30
Publication Date
6-2001
Abstract
The data that underlie Anneli Sarhimaa's excellent study were gathered between 1989 and 1992, under restrictive field circumstances. Visits to Karelia required what the author terms “intricate co-operation with academic and public authorities in Russia” (p. 76), and the duration of any stay was limited to a few weeks. From her home base in Finland, she made short visits to three Central Karelian villages in the summers of 1989 and 1991, working with additional Central Karelian speakers resident in the capital city of Karelia in the winters of 1990 and 1991; in 1992, a two-week trip allowed her to work in nine Tver Karelian villages in central Russia. That these compressed visits produced 30-some hours of taped interviews and 31 sets of translation-task data (15 Central Karelian, 16 Tver Karelian) does credit to her careful advance planning; the frankness with which she points to limitations in the resulting data does equal credit to her scholarly scrupulousness.
Publisher's Statement
© 2001 by Cambridge University Press. Available on publisher's site at http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0047404501342057.
Citation
Dorian, Nancy C. Review of Syntactic Transfer, Contact-Induced Change, and the Evolution of Bilingual Mixed Codes: Focus on Karelian-Russian Language Alternation, by Anneli Sarhimaa. Language in Society 30, no. 2 (1994): 308-311.
DOI
10.1017/S0047404501342057