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Multilingual Urban Scandinavia
Pia Quist
This book presents, for the first time, an overarching, trans-Scandinavian, comprehensive and comparable account of linguistic developments and practices in late modern urban contact zones. The book aims to capture the multilingual realities of all young people in urban contexts, whether they are of migrant descent or not. Taking a multi-layered approach to linguistic practices, chapters in the book include structural and phonological analyses of new linguistic practices, examine how these practices and their practitioners are perceived, and discuss the sociolinguistic potentials of speakers when constructing, challenging and negotiating identities. The book also contains three short overview articles describing studies ... Read more
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Peter Auer, Freiburg University, Germany
This book is unique - a stimulating exposé of the latest research on new linguistic practices and developments in late modern urban contact zones in three ... Read more