The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin : : Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language, Diversity and Social Space / / ed. by Theresa Heyd, Ferdinand von Mengden, Britta Schneider.

This volume explores the linguistic diversity and language variation in Berlin. The analytical focus is on the emergence of linguistic, cultural, political and spatial discourses and communities, or discursive and institutional responses to these. The volume provides new insights into language in it...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Language and Social Life [LSL] , 17
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 380 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. The sociolinguistic economy of Berlin: cosmopolitan perspectives on language, diversity and social space
  • Section 1: From past to present
  • 2. Longue durée and social styles: Shifting indexicalities in the Berlin vernacular from the perspective of historical sociolinguistics
  • 3. Berlinisch: variation and transformation processes of a city language
  • 4. Learning to be German: immigration and language in Berlin
  • Section 2: New identities
  • 5. “Unter Freunden redet man anders”: The register awareness of Kiezdeutsch speakers
  • 6. Social capital and the production and perception of fine phonetic detail in Berlin
  • 7. Language, economy, and the international artist community in Berlin
  • 8. Stancetaking and local identity construction among German-American bilinguals in Berlin
  • Section 3: Commodification
  • 9. Lifestyles, milieu languages and the economy: the presence of Italian in the urban spaces of Berlin
  • 10. From authentication to distinction – consuming Arabic in Berlin’s gentrifying falafel economies
  • 11. Spanish in Berlin – potentials and perspectives in teaching and tourism
  • Section 4: Localities
  • 12. Linguistic landscapes and the making of an imagined community
  • 13. The linguistic landscapes of Kreuzberg and Neukölln: a comparative analysis of two neighborhoods
  • 14. Bazaarlingualism in Berlin’s Đồng Xuân Center: anthropological perspectives
  • 15. Moving stories: writing Berlin lives
  • Index