Urban Sociolinguistics

Dick Smakman is Lecturer at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has taught courses in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at universities in the Netherlands, England, Poland and Japan.Patrick Heinrich is Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and Mediterranean African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy.Together, they are the co-editors of Globalising Sociolinguistics (2015).

• 1. Introduction: Why cities matter for a globalising sociolinguisticsPatrick Heinrich / Dick Smakman2. Urban sociolinguisticsFlorian CoulmasPart I: The Global SouthIntroduction to part I3. Cairo: The linguistic dynamics of a multilingual cityReem Bassiouney / Mark Muehlhaeusler4. Mexico City: Homogeneity and superdiversityRoland Terborg / Virna Velázquez5. Old variables, new meanings: Resignification of rural speech variants in São Paolo’s Portuguese urban ecologyLivia Oushiro / Maria de Carmen Parafita Couto 6. Dubai: Language in the ethnographic, corporate and mobile city Ingrid Piller7. Kohima: Language variation and change in a small but diverse city in India Shobha SatyanathPart II: The Global NorthIntroduction to part II8. The language of London and LondonersSusan Fox / Devyani Sharma9. Tokyo: Standardization, ludic language use and emerging superdiversityPatrick Heinrich / Rika Yamashita10. The city as a result of experiences: Paris and its nearby suburbsChristine Deprez11. The Randstad area in the Netherlands: Emergent and fluid identity-locality production through language in useLeonie Cornips / Vincent de Rooij / Dick Smakman12. Notes on the language ecology of the City of Angels: Los Angeles, California, 1965–2015Reynaldo F. Marcías / Arturo Díaz / Ameer Drane13. Sydney’s intersecting worlds of languages and thingsEmi Otsuji / Alastair Pennycook14. Moscow: Diversity in disguiseKapitolina Federova / Vlada BaranovaIn place of conclusions: A proposal for street use surveys

"A first-rate collection of empirically based, theoretically informed essays on sociolinguistic diversity in the major cities of the world. In merging foundational urban sociolinguistics with more recent developments that stress superdiverse fluidities, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sophisticated and important advance in the field." – Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa."A genuinely novel approach for modern sociolinguistics. More than half the world’s population now lives in cities – this radical change poses a number of questions for sociolinguists. Urban Sociolinguistics holds out a multitude of possibilities for researchers at any stage in their career." – Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Wellington, New Zealand."This volume is beneficial to both theoretical and applied linguists due to the versatility of the approaches used when studying languages in urban ecologies." - Teresa Wai See Ong, LINGUIST List, January 2020