Table of contents
Acknowledgements
xiii
Introduction: Portable language and the jouissance of identities
1
Chapter 1.Metroethnicity and cool: A theory of lifestyle identities
7
Chapter 2.Mocknolect: Identity and linguistic imitation
23
Chapter 3.The linguistic identity of place: Where things are, where we are
37
Chapter 4.Married names: Continuous identities and social conflict
49
Chapter 5.
Hiroshima! Hiroshima! We all fall down
: The speech fellowship of children
63
Chapter 6.Multilingual Japan: Word borrowers of the Chuo line
75
Chapter 7.Discriminatory language, taboo and language hygiene
91
Chapter 8.Ainu and the Celtic languages: Comparing vitality and endangerment
103
Chapter 9.The Sanka and Sanshōkotoba
: Lost argot of mountain itinerants
125
Chapter 10.Cool rules: Language loyalty, translation and ironic detachment
139
Chapter 11.A sociophonetics of the Japanese /r/: Mocknolect, stereotype, and variation
153
Chapter 12.Language difficulty and difficult languages
165
Chapter 13.Slang and modernity: Innovation and controversy about language
183
Chapter 14.Names and nicknames: Recognition, solidarity and social management
195
Chapter 15.Ethnic toponomy in Tokyo: Folklinguistics and multilingualism
209
References
221
Index
237
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