Bringing it all together : the maintenance of the Polish language outside of Poland

Seretny, Anna, Romanowski, Piotr

Regardless of the reasons that are forcing or encouraging people to leave their homeland and settle down outside its borders, emigration as a phenomenon opens up a broad field for historical, political, and (socio)linguistic research revolving around many issues such as language transmission and maintenance, language shift, the relation between language and identity, language policy and planning, child/adult bilingualism and many others.