Urban Matters : : Current Approaches in Variationist Sociolinguistics.

• Superior document: Studies in Language Variation Series ; v.27
• Author: Ziegler, Arne.
• TeilnehmendeR: Edler, Stefanie.; Oberdorfer, Georg.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Language Variation Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 pages)

This volume discusses the characteristics and dynamics of urban language use, considering aspects such as contact, variation and change, as well as identity, indexicality, attitudes, and spatial factors including mobility, (counter-)urbanisation and diffusion processes. It presents modern methodological and conceptual ideas as well as new findings.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Urban Matters -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Place identity vs. contact and mobility -- fragmentation of the city -- 2. Shifting indexicalities -- 3. Geography and language change -- References -- The sociolinguistic city -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cities as sites of encounter -- 2.1 Heterogeneity and sociolinguistic encounter -- 2.2 City mobilities and urban encounters -- 2.3 Circulation in the city: How change spreads -- 3. Discussion -- References -- Identity and mobility in linguistic change across the lifespan: The case of Swabian German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Research background -- 3. Data and methods -- 3.1 Speech communities -- 3.2 Swabian corpus -- 3.3 Transcription -- 3.4 Dialect Density Index (DDI) -- 3.5 Extra-linguistic predictors -- 3.6 Statistical methods -- 3.7 Interviewer effect -- 4. Analyses and results -- 4.1 Dialect density across the lifespan -- 4.2 Extralinguistic constraints on dialect density -- 4.3 Change in linguistic variables -- 4.4 Types of individual speaker change -- 4.5 Some ethnographic observations -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contact and identity in metropolitan areas -- 2.1 Migration to suburbs -- 2.2 Commuting to cities -- 2.3 A role for identity? -- 3. Greater St. Louis -- 3.1 Background -- 3.2 Linguistic features -- 4. Methods -- 4.1 Interviews -- 4.2 Questionnaire -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Production -- 5.2 Questionnaire -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants: The case of the front short vowels in Eastern England -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Intra-national mobilities and dialect levelling.

3. Dialect levelling and Short Front Vowels in East Anglian English -- 4. Methods -- 5. Results -- 5.1 get -- 5.2 have -- 5.3 Merger in progress? -- 6. Discussion -- References -- Language attitudes among mobile speakers: Evidence from Italian speakers living abroad -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Emigrating to Belgium and Switzerland: In the past and present -- 3. Standard language ideology in Italy -- 4. Method -- 4.1 Speech stimuli -- 4.2 Evaluative scales and factor analysis -- 4.3 Procedure -- 4.4 Respondents -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Factor analysis -- 5.2 Average scores and scaling -- 5.3 Effects -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Urban-rural dimensions to variable -body/-one: The case of Ontario, Canada -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical background -- 3. Synchronic situation: Canadian English -- 3.1 Distributional analysis -- 3.2 Geographic distribution -- 3.3 Statistical modelling -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- From an indicator to a marker: Urban dialect loss in Michigan -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Inland North and the Northern Cities Shift -- 1.2 Recession of the Northern Cities Shift -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Respondents -- 2.2 Experimental design -- 3. Analysis and results -- Accented -- Nasally -- Hard-working -- Bad English -- Educated -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Survey instrument -- New and old social meanings in urban and rural Sweden: The changing indexicalities of damped /i/ -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The damped /i/ -- 3. Phonological change and changing indexicalities -- 4. Data and methods -- 4.1 Locations and dialects: Gothenburg and Skärhamn -- 4.2 The informants -- 4.3 The production test -- 4.4 The Implicit Association Test (IAT) -- 4.5 The attitude interviews -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Results of the production test -- 5.2 Results of the IAT -- 5.3 Results of the attitude interviews.

6. Summary and discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Diminutives and their variation in spoken interaction in urban areas: The Austrian case -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic situation -- 3. Diminutive suffixes and research questions -- 4. Methodology -- 4.1 Corpora and analytical procedure -- 4.2 Informants -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Multivariate analyses of individual diminutive suffixes -- 5.2 Diatopic view: Vienna and Graz and their surroundings -- 5.3 Diastratic view: Distribution by gender -- 5.4 Diastratic view: Distribution by age -- 6. Conclusions -- Funding -- References -- Areal microvariation in German-speaking urban areas (Ruhr Area, Berlin, and Vienna) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aims of the study -- 3. Data, areas and methods -- 3.1 Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache (AdA) -- 3.2 German-speaking urban areas (three different ones) -- 3.3 Methods -- 4. Areal variation -- 4.1 Ruhr Area -- 4.2 Berlin -- 4.3 Vienna -- 5. Discussion: The interplay of space and social factors -- 5.1 Ruhr Area -- 5.2 Berlin -- 5.3 Vienna -- 6. Summary -- References -- Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology and corpus construction -- 2.1 Corpus structure -- 3. Mapping the distribution of morphosyntactic variants -- 3.1 Dative alternation revisited -- 3.2 Preposition drop -- 4. Approaches to the quantification of diffusion -- 4.1 Measurement -- 4.2 Evaluating real data -- 5. Conclusions -- Funding -- References -- Index.