Language convergence and diversity in the post-Soviet multilingual diaspora across the world
The special issue focuses 1) on the use of Russian as a postcolonial lingua franca in and between different post-Soviet diaspora, 2) on the contact-induced language shifts of home languages caused by the contact with dominant societal languages, on the one hand, and with Russian, on the other hand, and 3) on the status of the Russian as a postcolonial lingua franca in multilingual migrant...