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Author:   Paul Kerswill ,  Heike Wiese
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.598kg
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9781138596092

ISBN 10:   1138596094
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   31 March 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction, by Paul Kerswill and Heike Wiese PART A: MULTILINGUAL SOCIETAL HABITUS Chapter 1: Cameroon: Camfranglais, by Roland Kiessling Chapter 2: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lingala ya Bayankee/Yanké, by Nico Nassenstein Chapter 3: Senegal: Urban Wolof then and now, by Fiona Mc Laughlin Chapter 4: South Africa: Tsotsitaal and urban vernacular forms of South African languages, by Ellen Hurst-Harosh Chapter 5: Ghana: Ghanaian Student Pidgin English, by Dorothy Pokua Agyepong and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo Chapter 6: Kenya: Sheng and Engsh, by Maarten Mous and Sandra Barasa Chapter 7: Finland: Old Helsinki slang, by Heini Lehtonen and Heikki Paunonen Commentaries: Chapter 8: Baby steps in decolonising linguistics: Urban language research, by Miriam Meyerhoff Chapter 9: Variation, complexity and the richness of urban contact dialects, by Joseph Salmons PART B: MONOLINGUAL SOCIETAL HABITUS Chapter 10: Tanzania: Lugha ya Mitaani, by Uta Reuster-Jahn and Roland Kiessling Chapter 11: Denmark: Danish urban contact dialects, by Pia Quist Chapter 12: Norway: Contemporary urban speech styles, by Bente A. Svendsen Chapter 13: The Netherlands: Urban contact dialects, by Frans Hinskens, Khalid Mourigh and Pieter Muysken Chapter 14: Sweden: Suburban Swedish, by Johan Gross and Sally Boyd Chapter 15: France: Youth vernaculars in Paris and surroundings, by Françoise Gadet Chapter 16: United Kingdom: Multicultural London English, by Paul Kerswill Chapter 17: Germany: Kiezdeutsch, by Yazgül Şimşek and Heike Wiese Commentaries: Chapter 18: Ethnolects, multiethnolects and urban contact dialects: Looking forward, looking back, looking around, by David Britain Chapter 19: Migrants and urban contact sociolinguistics in Africa and Europe, by Rajend Mesthrie

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Paul Kerswill is Emeritus Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of York, UK. His research focuses particularly on dialect and language contact resulting from migration. With Jenny Cheshire, Sue Fox and Eivind Torgersen, he has published “Contact, the Feature Pool and the Speech Community: The emergence of Multicultural London English” (Journal of Sociolinguistics). Heike Wiese is Professor of German in Multilingual Contexts and founder of the Centre “Language in Urban Diversity” at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. Her 2012 monograph on Kiezdeutsch as a new German dialect received national and international media attention, and raised awareness of urban contact dialects as a legitimate part of the linguistic landscape.

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