Linguistic choices in the contemporary city : postmodern individuals in urban communicative settings /: postmodern individuals in urban communicative settings. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dick Smakman, Jiří Nekvapil and Kapitolina Fedorova.
• Editors: Smakman, Dick, 1970-; Nekvapil, Jiří; Fedorova, Kapitolina
• Contents: Contents List of Tables List of Figures List of Contributors 1. D. Smakman, J. Nekvapil, K. Fedorova. Introducing city people and their communicative challenges Part I. Innovative language uses 2. L. Iezzi. Marginal spaces in small urban areas: Evidence from a refugee centre in Southern Italy 3. H. Radke. Urban Language Practices Online? Multilingualism among German-Namibians in Computer-Mediated Communication 4. K. Beyer. Motorcycle taxi drivers in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon: Communication in a diffuse multilingual setting. Part II. Competing identities 5. L.-M. Lehto. Language Choices and Language Identities of Finns in Japan 6. CS. Bodó, R. K. Turai, G. Szabó. PC goes East-Central Europe: Enregistering politically correct language in Budapest university dormitories 7. D. Smakman. The Haarlem Legend: The unpredictable formation of a national language norm 8. J. Nekvapil. The sociolinguistic situation in Hradec Králové, the best researched town in the Czech Republic Part III. Multilingual strategies 9. I. Birnie. The social linguistic soundscape and its influence on language choice in Stornoway 10. J. A. E. Strandberg, C. Gooskens. Bilingualism, ideology and identity: Change in the Finland-Swedish variety 11. I. Liskovets, K. Fedorova. Trasyanka as a dying phenomenon of urban speech in the city of Minsk 12. V. Dovalil. Language problems in interactions between locals and foreign tourists in the city of Prague: A language management study Part IV. Linguistic Landscapes 13. K. Fedorova, V. Baranova. ‘Non-identical twins’: monolingual bias and linguistic landscapes of the twin cities of Ivangorod/Narva 14. V. Baranova, K. Fedorova. ‘Nothing personal, just business’: individuals as actors in changing monolingual linguistic landscapes in Vyborg, Russia 15. F. Van Meurs, B. Planken, N. Lasarzewski. Behind the linguistic landscape: An interview-based study of business owners’ reasons for choosing business names in the German city of Mainz Part V. Global processes and sound change 16. H. Hu, D. Smakman. Rhotics Frequency In Beijing 17. J. Falchetta. Reacting to urbanization in Morocco: New language practices, old discourses? 18. S. Mitsova, G. Padareva-Ilieva, D. Smakman. The dynamic sociophonetics of Bulgarian /l/: The quiet transition from [l] to [ŭ] Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.446; Urban dialects; Sociolinguistics; Languages in contact; Language and languages -- Variation; Identity (Philosophical concept); Multilingualism; Immigrants -- Language -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000555431; 9781000555400; 9780429348037
• Related ISBNs: 9780367366735; 9780367366766
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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