Sociolinguistic Transition in Former Eastern Bloc Countries: Two Decades After the Regime Change

This volume offers perspectives on the current sociolinguistic situations in former Eastern Bloc countries. Employing various methodological approaches, the authors analyse phenomena such as language choice, hierarchies and ideologies in multilingualism, language policies, minority languages, and the position of English in the region.

Marián Sloboda is Assistant Professor at the Department of Central European Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Petteri Laihonen is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Anastassia Zabrodskaja is Professor of Estonian as a Second Language at Tallinn University and Senior Research Fellow in Sociolinguistics at the University of Tartu, Estonia.