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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dick Smakman (Ca’ Foscari University, Italy) , Patrick Heinrich (Leiden University, The Netherlands)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9781138200371ISBN 10: 1138200379 Pages: 242 Publication Date: 31 August 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Why cities matter for a globalising sociolinguistics Patrick Heinrich / Dick Smakman 2. Urban sociolinguistics Florian Coulmas Part I: The Global South Introduction to part I 3. Cairo: The linguistic dynamics of a multilingual city Reem Bassiouney / Mark Muehlhaeusler 4. Mexico City: Homogeneity and superdiversity Roland Terborg / Virna Velázquez 5. Old variables, new meanings: Resignification of rural speech variants in São Paolo’s Portuguese urban ecology Livia Oushiro / Maria de Carmen Parafita Couto 6. Dubai: Language in the ethnographic, corporate and mobile city Ingrid Piller 7. Kohima: Language variation and change in a small but diverse city in India Shobha Satyanath Part II: The Global North Introduction to part II 8. The language of London and Londoners Susan Fox / Devyani Sharma 9. Tokyo: Standardization, ludic language use and emerging superdiversity Patrick Heinrich / Rika Yamashita 10. The city as a result of experiences: Paris and its nearby suburbs Christine Deprez 11. The Randstad area in the Netherlands: Emergent and fluid identity-locality production through language in use Leonie Cornips / Vincent de Rooij / Dick Smakman 12. Notes on the language ecology of the City of Angels: Los Angeles, California, 1965–2015 Reynaldo F. Marcías / Arturo Díaz / Ameer Drane 13. Sydney’s intersecting worlds of languages and things Emi Otsuji / Alastair Pennycook 14. Moscow: Diversity in disguise Kapitolina Federova / Vlada Baranova In place of conclusions: A proposal for street use surveysReviews"""A first-rate collection of empirically based, theoretically informed essays on sociolinguistic diversity in the major cities of the world. In merging foundational urban sociolinguistics with more recent developments that stress superdiverse fluidities, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sophisticated and important advance in the field."" – Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa. ""A genuinely novel approach for modern sociolinguistics. More than half the world’s population now lives in cities – this radical change poses a number of questions for sociolinguists. Urban Sociolinguistics holds out a multitude of possibilities for researchers at any stage in their career."" – Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Wellington, New Zealand. ""This volume is beneficial to both theoretical and applied linguists due to the versatility of the approaches used when studying languages in urban ecologies."" - Teresa Wai See Ong, LINGUIST List, January 2020" A first-rate collection of empirically based, theoretically informed essays on sociolinguistic diversity in the major cities of the world. In merging foundational urban sociolinguistics with more recent developments that stress superdiverse fluidities, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sophisticated and important advance in the field. - Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa. A genuinely novel approach for modern sociolinguistics. More than half the world's population now lives in cities - this radical change poses a number of questions for sociolinguists. Urban Sociolinguistics holds out a multitude of possibilities for researchers at any stage in their career. - Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Wellington, New Zealand. This volume is beneficial to both theoretical and applied linguists due to the versatility of the approaches used when studying languages in urban ecologies. - Teresa Wai See Ong, LINGUIST List, January 2020 Author InformationDick Smakman is Lecturer at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has taught courses in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at universities in the Netherlands, England, Poland and Japan. Patrick Heinrich is Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and Mediterranean African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy. Together, they are the co-editors of Globalising Sociolinguistics (2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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