Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change

This 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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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 im ek 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