Languages And Silence In The German-Polish Borderland

This book focuses on a region of Silesia where the inhabitants speak three languages: Polish, German, and Silesian. The author analyzes the different ways that the inhabitants use the three languages and the situational, associational, political, and historical reasons they choose to speak whatever language they are speaking at any given moment.

• | Author: Elizabeth R. Vann
• | Publisher: Piasa Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 316 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0940962748
• | ISBN-13: 9780940962743