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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Language and Social Life [LSL] ; 17Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (VI, 380 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501516566
  • 9781501508035
  • 9781501508103
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 400
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 its local but transnationally conditioned socio-economic embeddedness.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501508103

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

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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 its local but transnationally conditioned socio-economic embeddedness.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)

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