Urban matters : current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics /

"The city as a complex socio-cultural structure plays a central role within a country, economically, administratively as well as culturally. Factors such as greater mobility, increased contact, and a higher degree of heterogeneity compared to rural areas have a substantial impact on urban socie...

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Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors:	Ziegler, Arne, 1963- (Editor), Edler, Stefanie (Editor), Oberdorfer, Georg (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Series:	Studies in language variation (SILV), volume 27
Subjects:	Urban dialects > Europe. Linguistic geography > Europe. Language and languages > Variation. Identity (Philosophical concept) Place attachment > Europe. Dialectes urbains > Europe. Variation (Linguistique) Identité. Attachement à un lieu > Europe. identity. Linguistic geography. Place attachment. Urban dialects. Europe. Electronic books. Essay essays. Essays. Essais.
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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.