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Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City focuses on how
individuals navigate conversation in highly diversified contexts
and provides a broad overview of state of the art research in urban
sociolinguistics across the globe. Bearing in mind the impact of
international travel and migration, the book accounts for the
shifting contemporary studies to the workings of language choices
in places where people with many different backgrounds meet and
exchange ideas. It specifically addresses how people handle
language use challenges in a broad range of settings to present
themselves positively and meet their information and identity
goals. While a speaker's experience runs like a thread through this
volume, the linguistic, cultural and situational focus is as broad
as possible. It runs from the language choices of Chinese
immigrants to Beijing and Finnish immigrants to Japan to the use of
the local lingua franca by motor taxi drivers in Ngaoundere,
Cameroon, and how Hungarian students in their dorm rooms express
views on political correctness uninhibitedly. As it turns out,
language play, improvisation, humour, lies, as well as highly
marked subconscious pronunciation choices, are natural parts of the
discourses, and this volume provides numerous and extensive
examples of these techniques. For each of the settings discussed,
the perspective is taken of personalised linguistic and
extra-linguistic styles in tackling communicative challenges. This
way, a picture is drawn of how postmodern individuals in extremely
different cultural and situational circumstances turn out to have
strikingly similar human behaviours and intentions. Linguistic
Choices in the Contemporary City is of interest to all those who
follow theoretical and methodological developments in this field.
It will be of use for upper level students in the fields of
Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Linguistic Anthropology and related
fields in which urban communicative settings are the focus.
Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City focuses on how
individuals navigate conversation in highly diversified contexts
and provides a broad overview of state of the art research in urban
sociolinguistics across the globe. Bearing in mind the impact of
international travel and migration, the book accounts for the
shifting contemporary studies to the workings of language choices
in places where people with many different backgrounds meet and
exchange ideas. It specifically addresses how people handle
language use challenges in a broad range of settings to present
themselves positively and meet their information and identity
goals. While a speaker's experience runs like a thread through this
volume, the linguistic, cultural and situational focus is as broad
as possible. It runs from the language choices of Chinese
immigrants to Beijing and Finnish immigrants to Japan to the use of
the local lingua franca by motor taxi drivers in Ngaoundere,
Cameroon, and how Hungarian students in their dorm rooms express
views on political correctness uninhibitedly. As it turns out,
language play, improvisation, humour, lies, as well as highly
marked subconscious pronunciation choices, are natural parts of the
discourses, and this volume provides numerous and extensive
examples of these techniques. For each of the settings discussed,
the perspective is taken of personalised linguistic and
extra-linguistic styles in tackling communicative challenges. This
way, a picture is drawn of how postmodern individuals in extremely
different cultural and situational circumstances turn out to have
strikingly similar human behaviours and intentions. Linguistic
Choices in the Contemporary City is of interest to all those who
follow theoretical and methodological developments in this field.
It will be of use for upper level students in the fields of
Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Linguistic Anthropology and related
fields in which urban communicative settings are the focus.
This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on
dialogical networks, showing how the concept of the dialogical
network developed through series of connected case studies and
clarifying the concept through historical analysis. Identifying the
key characteristics of dialogical networks and showing that
knowledge of them, though formulated in the abstract, is affected
by historical contingencies, it demonstrates that work on
dialogical networks required the work of a practical historian,
connecting contemporary work to foregoing studies. As such, this
volume represents an original study of how doing history is a part
of research and sheds light on the ways in which people use the
past in their social activities.
The chapters in this volume reflect the variety of methods that
researchers have recently applied in their investigations of
"behavior toward language", or language management. The innovative
methods introduced in the volume will appeal to researchers
interested in different types of introspective interview
methodology and discourse analysis, and to those looking for ways
of linking language policy to everyday social interactions. The
broad spectrum of themes taken up by the authors include the
practices of language cultivation agencies, the use of first and
second languages in educational contexts, attitudes toward language
varieties, the use of language in immigrant communities, and the
processes underlying literary criticism.
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