The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin: Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language, Diversity and Social Space

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This volume explores the linguistic diversity and language variation in Berlin. The analytical focus is on the emergence of linguistic, cultural, political and spatial discourses and communities, or discursive and institutional responses to these. The volume provides new insights into language in its local but transnationally conditioned socio-economic embeddedness. Contents 1. The sociolinguistic economy of Berlin: cosmopolitan perspectives on language, diversity and social space Section 1: From past to present 2. Longue durée and social styles: Shifting indexicalities in the Berlin vernacular from the perspective of historical sociolinguistics 3. Berlinisch: variation and transformation processes of a city language 4. Learning to be German: immigration and language in Berlin Section 2: New identities 5. “Unter Freunden redet man anders”: The register awareness of Kiezdeutsch speakers 6. Social capital and the production and perception of fine phonetic detail in Berlin 7. Language, economy, and the international artist community in Berlin 8. Stancetaking and local identity construction among German-American bilinguals in Berlin Section 3: Commodification 9. Lifestyles, milieu languages and the economy: the presence of Italian in the urban spaces of Berlin 10. From authentication to distinction – consuming Arabic in Berlin’s gentrifying falafel economies 11. Spanish in Berlin – potentials and perspectives in teaching and tourism Section 4: Localities 12. Linguistic landscapes and the making of an imagined community 13. The linguistic landscapes of Kreuzberg and Neukölln: a comparative analysis of two neighborhoods 14. Bazaarlingualism in Berlin’s Đồng Xuân Center: anthropological perspectives 15. Moving stories: writing Berlin lives Index