The Sociolinguistics of Urban Vernaculars : Case Studies and Their Evaluation

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Vorwort zur Reihe „Soziolinguistik und Sprachkontakt" Foreword to the Series "Sociolinguistics and Language Contact" Introduction Contents Part 1. Berlin Urban Vernacular Studies: Contributions to Sociolinguistics Chapter 1: Variation in a Divided Speech Community: The Urban Vernacular of Berlin Chapter 2: The Social Significance of the Berlin Urban Vernacular Chapter 3: Berlin Style and Register Chapter 4: Components for an Overarching Theoretical Perspective in Sociolinguistics Part 2 The Analysis of Urban Varieties: Some Methodological Considerations Chapter 5: The Unity of a Vernacular. Some Remarks on "Berliner Stadtsprache" Chapter 6: Discourse Analysis in Sociolinguistics Chapter 7: Conceptual Problems in the Study of Regional and Cultural Style Chapter 8: Comments on Berlin Urban Vernacular Studies Part 3. Investigations of Urban Varieties Research in Progress Chapter 9: Attitudes in Communication Profiles. Some Remarks on the 'Erp-Project' Chapter 10: Villages and Towns in Salento: the Way Code Switching Switches Chapter 11: Social Networks and Code-Switching: a Sociolinguistic Investigation of Italians in Montreal Chapter 12: The Symbolization of Social Identity. Ethnography and Analysis of Linguistic Variation in a Project about Urban Communication in Mannheim Bibliography Contributors