“Куэссь не получается сāмас, рyшас полегче” – codeswitching on the Kola Peninsula

Abstract

This paper examines a number of examples of codeswitching between Kildin Saami and Russian on the Kola Peninsula, and tries to explain their possible discourse-related meanings in the light of existing theories on codeswitching.

Keywords

• Russian
• Saami
• language
• codeswitching