{"product_id":"urban-contact-dialects-and-language-change-9781032222080","title":"Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides a systematic comparative treatment of urban contact dialects in the Global North and South, examining the emergence and development of these dialects in major cities in sub-Saharan Africa and North-Western Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bookâs focus on contemporary urban settings sheds light on the new language practices and mixed ways of speaking resulting from large-scale migration and the intense contact that occurs between new and existing languages and dialects in these contexts. In comparing these new patterns of language variation and change between cities in both Africa and Europe, the volume affords us a unique opportunity to examine commonalities in linguistic phenomena as well as sociolinguistic differences in societally multilingual settings and settings dominated by a strong monolingual habitus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese comparisons are reinforced by a consistent chapter structure, with each chapter presenting the linguistic and social context of the region, information on \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction, by Paul Kerswill and Heike Wiese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART A: MULTILINGUAL SOCIETAL HABITUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Cameroon: Camfranglais, by Roland Kiessling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lingala ya Bayankee\/Yanké, by Nico Nassenstein\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Senegal: Urban Wolof then and now, by Fiona Mc Laughlin \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: South Africa: Tsotsitaal and urban vernacular forms of South African languages, by Ellen Hurst-Harosh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Ghana: Ghanaian Student Pidgin English, by Dorothy Pokua Agyepong and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Kenya: Sheng and Engsh, by Maarten Mous and Sandra Barasa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Finland: Old Helsinki slang, by Heini Lehtonen and Heikki Paunonen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommentaries:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Baby steps in decolonising linguistics: \u003cem\u003eUrban language\u003c\/em\u003e research, by Miriam Meyerhoff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Variation, complexity and the richness of urban contact dialects, by Joseph Salmons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART B: MONOLINGUAL SOCIETAL HABITUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Tanzania: \u003cem\u003eLugha ya Mitaani\u003c\/em\u003e, by Uta Reuster-Jahn and Roland Kiessling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Denmark: Danish urban contact dialects, by Pia Quist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Norway: Contemporary urban speech styles, by Bente A. Svendsen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: The Netherlands: Urban contact dialects, by Frans Hinskens, Khalid Mourigh and Pieter Muysken\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Sweden: Suburban Swedish, by Johan Gross and Sally Boyd\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: France: Youth vernaculars in Paris and surroundings, by Françoise Gadet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: United Kingdom: Multicultural London English, by Paul Kerswill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: Germany: Kiezdeutsch, by Yazgül Şimşek and Heike Wiese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommentaries:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18: Ethnolects, multiethnolects and urban contact dialects: Looking forward, looking back, looking around, by David Britain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19: Migrants and urban contact sociolinguistics in Africa and Europe, by Rajend Mesthrie\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018909090135,"sku":"9781032222080","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032222080.jpg?v=1750778621","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urban-contact-dialects-and-language-change-9781032222080","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}