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Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change - Insights from the Global North and South (Hardcover)
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Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change - Insights from the Global North and South (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Language Change
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This volume provides a systematic comparative treatment of urban
contact dialects in the Global North and South, examining the
emergence and development of these dialects in major cities in
sub-Saharan Africa and North-Western Europe. The book's focus on
contemporary urban settings sheds light on the new language
practices and mixed ways of speaking resulting from large-scale
migration and the intense contact that occurs between new and
existing languages and dialects in these contexts. In comparing
these new patterns of language variation and change between cities
in both Africa and Europe, the volume affords us a unique
opportunity to examine commonalities in linguistic phenomena as
well as sociolinguistic differences in societally multilingual
settings and settings dominated by a strong monolingual habitus.
These comparisons are reinforced by a consistent chapter structure,
with each chapter presenting the linguistic and social context of
the region, information on available data (including corpora),
sociolinguistic and structural findings, a discussion of the status
of the urban contact dialect, and its stability over time. The
discussion in the book is further enriched by short commentaries
from researchers contributing different theoretical and
geographical perspectives. Taken as a whole, the book offers new
insights into migration-based linguistic diversity and patterns of
language variation and change, making this ideal reading for
students and scholars in general linguistics and language
structure, sociolinguistics, creole studies, diachronic
linguistics, language acquisition, anthropological linguistics,
language education and discourse analysis.
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