The world of a language and culture in the immigrant life

Elżbieta Sękowska

Uniwersytet Warszawski


Abstract

The article focuses on the presentation of changes in ethnicity carriers: a language, tradition and religion in the process of assimilation of immigrants in the host society. Breaking ethnic isolation entails changes in the hierarchy of ethnic group’s values; residual native language skills serve as a declaration of ethnic identity. The forms of folk tradition will ritualize whereas folklore is taking over new properties in result of inter-ethnic contacts. Such processes have been discussed on the example of the largest concentrations of Polish immigrant settlers, inter alia in the USA and Brazil.


Published
2011-12-30


Sękowska, E. (2011) “The world of a language and culture in the immigrant life”, Białostockie Archiwum Językowe, (11), pp. 213–222. doi: 10.15290/baj.2011.11.15.

Elżbieta Sękowska 
Uniwersytet Warszawski