Linguistic superdiversity in urban areas : research approaches / edited by Joana Duarte, Ingrid Gogolin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duarte, Joana.

Gogolin, Ingrid.

Series:

Hamburg studies on linguistic diversity

Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Languages in contact.

Multilingualism--Social aspects.

Multilingualism.

Sociolinguistics.

Urban dialects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Globalization poses challenges to sociolinguistics. The main challenge is to come to terms with the phenomenology of sociolinguistic globalization. This phenomenology touches four domains: proper globalization effects on language, the effect of globalization on migration patterns and immigrant communities, the effect of globalization, notably of the spread of English as a global language, on language hierarchies, and the domain of remote communities that have serious doubts regarding their possibilities of successfully participating in the globalization process. The sociolinguistics of globalization can only be studied in the total, central as well as peripheral, global context where globalization processes happen and influence language structures, choices and uses. China is a case in point. On the one hand, China is one of the engines of economic globalization; on the other hand, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo brought globalized mega-events to China, spurring an already booming tourist industry. These developments have changed the sociolinguistic face of China. After an outline of some important issues in globalization and a provisional sketch of a program for the study of sociolinguistic globalization in China, this contribution gives an example of a sociolinguistic analysis of a sequence of bilingual Chinese English order notices that can be found in the micro-linguistic landscape of Beijing.

Contents:

Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Untitled

Financial support page

List of contributors

Introduction

1. Preamble

2. The superdiversity framework

2.1 The dynamics of migration and growing diversity

2.2 Research on linguistic diversity: "New repertoires"

2.2 Methodological issues

3. Education in linguistic superdiverse societies - research and methods

4. A traditional attempt to capture linguistic diversity: The case of "bilingual education"

5. Introduction to the volume

5.1 Acknowledgements

References

Capturing superdiversity

Using correspondence analysis to model immigrant multilingualism over time

Modeling multilingualism

Correspondence analysis: A brief explanation

Basic concepts

Visual representation in two- or three-dimensional maps

Multiple correspondence analysis

Cross-sectional model of immigrant language proficiency, use, and practices

The data: Older Spanish-English, Puerto Rican bilingual/biculturals

Results of the multiple correspondence analysis

Maps of modalities and supplementary points

Maps of individuals

Longitudinal model of immigrant language proficiency, use, and practices

First method: A repeated measures, longitudinal analysis

The data: A constructed longitudinal data set with three time points

Results of analysing a repeated measures data set

Second method: A transitions analysis

The data: A constructed longitudinal data set with two time points

Results of analysing the transition matrix

Discussion and conclusion

Capturing diversity

1. Introduction

2. Linguistic diversity in Hamburg

2.2 A focal point of urban diversity: Hamburg St. Georg.

3. A functional-pragmatic perspective on language and society

4. Capturing written forms of linguistic diversity: Linguistic landscaping

4.1 Linguistic landscaping as a means to investigate linguistic diversity

4.2 Unit of analysis

4.3 St. Georg's linguistic diversity on public signs: A quantitative approach

4.4 A microanalytic approach to the linguistic landscape of St. Georg

5. Capturing oral forms of linguistic diversity: Linguistic soundscaping

5.1 Origins of the study of the soundscape

5.2 From soundscape to linguistic soundscaping

5.3 Methods of linguistic soundscaping

5.4 Some preliminary findings on "linguistic soundscapes" in St. Georg

6. Summary and discussion

Acknowledgements

Measuring language diversity in urban ecosystems

How can diversity be measured?

Scanning the field

Deriving the indices

Applying the indices to language

A case in point: Language diversity in St. Georg

Object of investigation

Method and procedure

Results

Discussion

General remarks

Summary

Language acquisition and practice

Foreign language acquisition in heritage speakers

2. The nominal domains of Turkish, German and English

2.1 Turkish

2.2 German

2.3 English

3. Previous studies on the acquisition of articles in (adult) L2 and L3-English

3.1 L1-Turkish

3.2 L1-German

3.3 L2-German L3-English

3.4 Previous research on article use in child L2-German and predictions

4. Our study

4.1 Data collection

4.2 Participants

4.3 Methods

5. Results

5.1 Article use and omission in spoken production

5.2 Inappropriate article use vis-à-vis frequency and recency of Turkish use

5.3 Inappropriate article use vis-à-vis age of onset in German

6. Summary and conclusions

References.

Heteroglossia in English complementary schools

Chinese complementary schools and superdiversity

Translanguaging

Heteroglossia

Research context

Enforcing identity and language boundaries: Negotiating fluidity

Heteroglossia in the curriculum

Conclusion

Enough is enough

Micro-hegemonies

Discursive orientations and the quest for authenticity

Enoughness in action 1: The chav

Enoughness in action 2: Is this pub Irish enough?

The primary classroom as a superdiverse hetero-normative space

2. Identities, space and place

3. The sociolinguistic context of the study

4. Pupils confronted with the big language: The case of Mohammed

4.1 Walid: Technically a 'one point nine' child

4.2 Micheline: The near-native-speaker

5. Small languages made big: 'Pure Berbers' and 'half Arabs'

6. Beyond big and small languages: 'A real Turk' says 'shouf, shouf habibi'

7. Discussion and conclusions

Assessing narrative development in bilingual first language acquisition

Acquisition of narrative structures

Monolingual children

Bilingual children

Rationale for the present study

The present study

Participants

Materials

Procedure

Analysis and results

Analysis of micro structure

Analysis of macro structure

Discussion and conclusions

Examples of language contact and change

Detecting historical continuity in a linguistically diverse urban area

1.1 Terminology

2. Irish English, Singapore English and language contact

3. Singapore English: Its role in the context of linguistic diversity and its history

3.1 Sociohistorical context

3.2 Irish community in Singapore

3.3 Detecting historical continuity in SingEng.

4. Variationist approach to studying contact-induced phenomena and new Englishes

5. Data and methods

Data

Dependent variable

Independent variables

6. Results

7. Analysis

7.1 Substratist/L1 related explanation

7.2 Explanation in terms of L1 independent (universal) processes

7.3 Historical input explanation

8. Discussion

8.1 Meyehoff's model

8.2 The have perfect and other verb forms in present perfect contexts

9. Conclusions

Four decades of study of synchronic variation in varieties of Dutch. A sketch

2. The social turn

2.1 New research questions, themes and areas

2.2 Research which emphasizes psychological aspects

2.3 Research which emphasizes sociological aspects

2.4 Research which emphasizes societal aspects

2.5 New methodologies

3. The re-orientation on theoretical debates in linguistics

3.1 Paradigms and theories

3.2 Consequences for the methodology

4. The improvement and miniaturisation of recording equipment and the rapid rise of digital research techniques

5. A domain for further research: Varieties of Dutch in language contact and the synchronic study of externally motivated variation

5.1 The Roots of ethnolects project

5.2 Sizing up

Language contact in heritage languages in the Netherlands

1.1 HLs as a natural experiment

1.2 Educational issues: Heritage speakers in the class room

1.3 Language attitudes and linguistic practices in diasporic communities

1.4 Is attrition like ordinary language change?

1.5 The notion of superdiversity

2. Previous sociolinguistic studies on Dutch immigrant communities

2. 1 Second language acquisition and ethnolects of Dutch

2.2 Code switching and code mixing research

2.3 Language loss and attrition research.

2.4 Successive migration movements and the notion of superdiversity

3. The case of the Chinese languages

3.1 The Chinese languages

3.2 Chinese migration to the Netherlands

3.3 Overlapping identities in Chinese organizations

3.4 Language use and language change in Netherlands Chinese

4. Conclusions

Chinese and globalization

2. Issues in a sociolinguistics of globalization

3. Sociolinguistic globalization in Chinese

4. A 'fire extinguisher box' as a case in point

5. Conclusion

Author index

Subject index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 11, 2013).

ISBN:

9789027271334

902727133X

OCLC:

864676149