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Author:   Dick Smakman ,  Jiří Nekvapil ,  Kapitolina Fedorova
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
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9780367366766

ISBN 10:   0367366762
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   23 May 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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List of Tables List of Figures List of Contributors 1. Introducing city people and their communicative challenges Part I. Innovative language uses 2. Marginal spaces in small urban areas: Evidence from a refugee centre in Southern Italy 3. Urban Language Practices Online? Multilingualism among German-Namibians in Computer-Mediated Communication 4. Motorcycle taxi drivers in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon: Communication in a diffuse multilingual setting. Part II. Competing identities 5. Language Choices and Language Identities of Finns in Japan 6. PC goes East-Central Europe: Enregistering politically correct language in Budapest university dormitories 7. The Haarlem Legend: The unpredictable formation of a national language norm 8. The sociolinguistic situation in Hradec Králové, the best researched town in the Czech Republic Part III. Multilingual strategies 9. The social linguistic soundscape and its influence on language choice in Stornoway 10. Bilingualism, ideology and identity: Change in the Finland-Swedish variety 11. Trasyanka as a dying phenomenon of urban speech in the city of Minsk 12. Language problems in interactions between locals and foreign tourists in the city of Prague: A language management study Part IV. Linguistic Landscapes 13. ‘Non-identical twins’: monolingual bias and linguistic landscapes of the twin cities of Ivangorod/Narva 14. ‘Nothing personal, just business’: individuals as actors in changing monolingual linguistic landscapes in Vyborg, Russia 15. Behind the linguistic landscape: An interview-based study of business owners’ reasons for choosing business names in the German city of Mainz Part V. Global processes and sound change 16. Rhotics Frequency In Beijing 17. Reacting to urbanization in Morocco: New language practices, old discourses? 18. The dynamic sociophonetics of Bulgarian /l/: The quiet transition from [l] to [ŭ] Index

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Dick Smakman is an Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics in the Netherlands. He specialises in the sociolinguistics and sociophonetics of both first-language use and second language acquisition and use. Jiří Nekvapil is an Associate Professor at Charles University in Prague. His specific research interests lie in the issues of language interaction, Language Management Theory, language diversity in multinational companies and the ethnomethodologically based analysis of media discourse. Kapitolina Fedorova is a Professor of Russian Studies at Tallinn University in Estonia. Her research interests include language contacts, intercultural communication, migration and border studies, and register variation in everyday communication.

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