nam a22 c 4500 silv.27/249028156 nljbp 250625085110.2 cr ||||||||||| 241210s2021 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2021041989 9789027258281 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P40.5.U73 306.4409173/2 23/eng/20211104 CFB bicssc LAN009050 bisacsh Urban Matters Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics Edited by Arne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021 ©2021 1 online resource (x, 280 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies in Language Variation 1872-9592 27 Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface / Arne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer -- Introduction / Paul Kerswill -- The sociolinguistic city / Barbara Johnstone -- Identity and mobility in linguistic change across the lifespan / Karen V. Beaman -- Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice / Daniel Duncan -- Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants / David Britain and Sarah Grossenbacher -- Language attitudes among mobile speakers / Stefania Marzo, Silvia Natale and Stefano De Pascale -- Urban-rural dimensions to variable -body/-one / Bridget L. Jankowski and Sali A. Tagliamonte -- From an indicator to a marker / Monica Nesbitt -- New and old social meanings in urban and rural Sweden / Jenny Nilsson, Lena Wenner, Therese Leinonen and Eva Thorselius -- Diminutives and their variation in spoken interaction in urban areas / Arne Ziegler, Georg Oberdorfer and Kristina Herbert -- Areal microvariation in German-speaking urban areas (Ruhr Area, Berlin, and Vienna) / Simon Pröll, Stephan Elspass and Simon Pickl -- Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data / Deepthi Gopal, Tam Blaxter, David Willis and Adrian Leemann 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. Provided by publisher. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Sociolinguistics and Dialectology Theoretical linguistics Ziegler, Arne editor Edler, Stefanie editor Oberdorfer, Georg editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021 9789027210135 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.27 Open Access https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027258281