Urban Sociolinguistics

Author : Dick Smakman,Patrick Heinrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315514635

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Urban Sociolinguistics by Dick Smakman,Patrick Heinrich Pdf

From Los Angeles to Tokyo, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the world. Building on William Labov’s famous New York Study, the authors demonstrate how language use in these areas is changing based on belief systems, behavioural norms, day-to-day rituals and linguistic practices. All chapters are written by key figures in sociolinguistics and presents the personal stories of individuals using linguistic means to go about their daily communications, in diverse sociolinguistic systems such as: extremely large urban conurbations like Cairo, Tokyo, and Mexico City smaller settings like Paris and Sydney less urbanised places such as the Western Netherlands Randstad area and Kohima in India. Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact, code-switching and mixing, language and identity, language policy and planning and social networks, this is key reading for students and researchers in the areas of multilingualism and super-diversity within sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and urban studies.

Author : Norbert Dittmar,Peter Schlobinski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110857337

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The Sociolinguistics of Urban Vernaculars by Norbert Dittmar,Peter Schlobinski Pdf

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Author : Sofie Henricson,Väinö Syrjälä,Carla Bagna,Martina Bellinzona
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789518588705

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Sociolinguistic Variation in Urban Linguistic Landscapes by Sofie Henricson,Väinö Syrjälä,Carla Bagna,Martina Bellinzona Pdf

Urban linguistic landscapes reflect and create sociolinguistic, societal and urban dynamics. This book explores these relations scientifically and, focusing on the linguistic landscapes of selected cities in northern and southern Europe, sheds light on how urban areas with diverse profiles differ, and how linguistic landscapes change through tourism and migration, or in times of crisis. The book puts forward sophisticated and novel ways of approaching urban sociolinguistics and enhances understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced when studying sociolinguistic variation in these linguistic landscapes. This book is targeted especially at scholars in the field of urban sociolinguistics wishing to approach the subject through the lens of linguistic landscapes. It also raises interesting points to anyone involved in language planning and policy reflection, as well as those engaged in urban redevelopment planning. Last but not least, it offers theoretical and methodological guidance to students and researchers in a wider variety of disciplines.

Author : Elana Shohamy,Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Monica Barni
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847694812

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Linguistic Landscape in the City by Elana Shohamy,Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Monica Barni Pdf

This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic landscape and the impact of the linguistic landscape on the wider social and cultural reality. Not only does the book offer a wealth of case studies and comparisons to complement existing publications on linguistic landscape, but the editors aim to investigate the nature of a field of study which is characterised by its interest in ‘ordered disorder’. The editors aspire to delve into linguistic landscape beyond its appearance as a jungle of jumbled and irregular items by focusing on the variations in linguistic landscape configurations and recognising that it is but one more field of the shaping of social reality under diverse, uncoordinated and possibly incongruent structuration principles.

Author : Frans Gregersen,Inge Lise Pedersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Danish language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005511154

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The Copenhagen Study in Urban Sociolinguistics by Frans Gregersen,Inge Lise Pedersen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Danish language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005511162

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The Copenhagen Study in Urban Sociolinguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arne Ziegler,Stefanie Edler,Georg Oberdorfer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258281

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Urban Matters by Arne Ziegler,Stefanie Edler,Georg Oberdorfer Pdf

The city as a complex socio-cultural structure plays a central role, economically, administratively as well as culturally. Factors such as higher population density, a more expansive infrastructure, and larger social and cultural diversity compared to rural areas have a substantial impact on urban society and urban communication. Focusing on the latter, the contributions to this volume discuss the characteristics and dynamics of urban language use, considering aspects such as contact, variation and change, as well as identity, indexicality, and attitudes, but also spatial factors including mobility, urbanisation/counterurbanisation, and diffusion processes. The collected articles provide an update of ‘first wave’ approaches of variationist sociolinguistics, but also establish a connection to ‘third wave’ research for readers from a broad range of fields, especially sociolinguistics, variationist linguistics, and dialectology. The book presents modern methodological and conceptual ideas and a wealth of new findings but also serves as a reference work, combining theoretical discussions with results from recent empirical studies.

Author : David Hornsby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351560955

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Language and Social Structure in Urban France by David Hornsby Pdf

The coming together of linguistics and sociology in the 1960's, most notably via the work of William Labov, marked a revolution in the study of language and provided a paradigm for the understanding of variation and change. Labovian quantitative methods have been employed successfully in North America, the UK, Scandinavia and New Zealand, but have had surprisingly little resonance in France, a country which poses many challenges to orthodox sociolinguistic thinking. Why, for example, does a nation with unexceptional scores on income distribution and social mobility show an exceptionally high degree of linguistic levelling, that is, the elimination of marked regional or local speech forms? And why does French appear to abound in 'hyperstyle' variables, which show greater variation on the stylistic than on the social dimension, in defiance of a well-established theory than such variables should not occur? This volume brings together leading variationist sociolinguists and sociologists from both sides of the Channel to ask: what makes France'exceptional'? In addressing this question, variationists have been forced to reassess the accepted interdisciplinary consensus, and to ask, as sociolinguistics has come of age, whether concepts and definitions have been transposed in a way which meaningfully preserves their original sense and, crucially, takes account of recent developments in sociology. Sociologists, for their part, have focused on the largely neglected area of language variation and its implications for social theory. Their findings therefore transcend the case study of a particularly enigmatic country to raise important theoretical questions for both disciplines.

Author : Theresa Heyd,Ferdinand von Mengden,Britta Schneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501508103

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The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin by Theresa Heyd,Ferdinand von Mengden,Britta Schneider Pdf

This volume explores the linguistic diversity and language variation in Berlin. The analytical focus is on the emergence of linguistic, cultural, political and spatial discourses and communities, or discursive and institutional responses to these. The volume provides new insights into language in its local but transnationally conditioned socio-economic embeddedness.

Author : Ulrich Ammon,Norbert Dittmar,Klaus J. Mattheier,Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110194258

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Sociolinguistics / Soziolinguistik. Volume 2 by Ulrich Ammon,Norbert Dittmar,Klaus J. Mattheier,Peter Trudgill Pdf

Since the publication of the first edition of the handbook Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik , the then young discipline has changed and developed considerably. The field has left behind its status as an interdiscipline between sociology and linguistics and is now a worldwide established field. Sociolinguistics continues to contribute to solving practical problems in areas such as language planning and standardization, language policy, as well as in language didactics and speech therapy. Moreover, new topics and areas of application have arisen from the autonomy of the discipline - these have been systematically and extensively included in the second edition of the handbook. The new overall concept depicts the regional and disciplinary representativity of sociolinguistic research while offering an encyclopedia-like useablitiy for all its readers. This includes theoretical depth and stringency for readers interested in theory, as well as methodical abundance and detail for empirical researchers. The descriptions of methods are so informative and precise that they can directly be used in the preparation of project planning. Similarly, the descriptions in the practice-oriented articles are so precise that users can accurately assess to what extent they can expect a certain sociolinguistic approach to help solve their problems. With an extensive description as its goal, the second edition of the handbook Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik takes into account the current standing of the discipline and the modified structure of the field.

Author : Martin J Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135261047

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The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World by Martin J Ball Pdf

Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social setting, The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World is the first single-volume collection surveying current and recent research trends in international sociolinguistics. With over 30 chapters written by leading authorities in the region concerned, all continents and their respective regions are covered. The book will serve as an important tool to help widen the perspective on sociolinguistics to readers of English. Divided into sections covering: The Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Middle East, and Europe, the book provides readers with a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field of sociolinguistics in each area. It clearly explains the patterns and systematicity that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternations between different language varieties mark personal style, social power and national identity. The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World is the ideal resource for all students on undergraduate sociolinguistics courses and researchers involved in the study of language, society and power. English Language and Linguistics / Sociolinguistics

Author : Enam Al-Wer,Uri Horesh,Bruno Herin,Rudolf De Jong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107182615

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Arabic Sociolinguistics by Enam Al-Wer,Uri Horesh,Bruno Herin,Rudolf De Jong Pdf

A comprehensive look at Arabic sociolinguistic variation and linguistic change, including rich datasets, bibliographies and exercises.

Author : Rob Drummond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319734620

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Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity by Rob Drummond Pdf

This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed interactional sociolinguistics, this detailed and highly reflexive account provides rich descriptions and discussions of the linguistic processes at work in a previously underexplored research environment. In doing so, it reveals fresh insights into the changes taking place in urban British English, and into the difficulties of undertaking ethnographic, sociolinguistic research in a challenging context using a combination of methods and approaches. This interdisciplinary work will appeal to students and scholars from across the fields of sociolinguistics, ethnography, and education; as well as providing a valuable resource for teachers and trainees.

Author : Dick Smakman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350308695

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Discovering Sociolinguistics by Dick Smakman Pdf

This engagingly written textbook provides a unique 'hands-on' introduction to sociolinguistics, which equips readers with the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project. The book begins by outlining the historical, theoretical and cultural space in which language use occurs, before delving into the key topics and concepts of today's field. It examines the choices speakers make in everyday life and assesses language and status across the world, by investigating variation in cultural norms. Sociolinguistic variables such as age and gender are surveyed, along with the socio-cultural context of second language acquisition. The second half of the book equips readers with the skills needed to undertake sociolinguistic research of their own. This is an ideal introductory text for students taking courses in sociolinguistics, language and society, language in use or language variation.

Author : Irene Theodoropoulou
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269706

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Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens by Irene Theodoropoulou Pdf

This ethnographic study deals with the ways people in Athens, Greece, use style to construct their social class identities. Including a rich dataset comprising ethnographic interviews with actual people who live in the stereotypically seen as leafy and posh northern suburbs and in the stereotypically treated as working class western suburbs of Athens coupled with data from popular literary novels, TV series and Greek hip hop music, it argues that the relationship between style and social class identity is mediated by complex social meanings encompassing features from and discourses relevant to both areas, which are structured across different orders of indexicality depending on the genre of speech in which they are created. As such, it will be of interest to scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, anthropology, sociology, Modern Greek studies, and to everyone who is interested in how social class is constructed via language.