4. Learning to be German: immigration and language in Berlin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. 1. The sociolinguistic economy of Berlin: cosmopolitan perspectives on language, diversity and social space 1
4. Section 1: From past to present
5. 2. Longue durée and social styles: Shifting indexicalities in the Berlin vernacular from the perspective of historical sociolinguistics 21
6. 3. Berlinisch: variation and transformation processes of a city language 51
7. 4. Learning to be German: immigration and language in Berlin 73
8. Section 2: New identities
9. 5. “Unter Freunden redet man anders”: The register awareness of Kiezdeutsch speakers 97
10. 6. Social capital and the production and perception of fine phonetic detail in Berlin 125
11. 7. Language, economy, and the international artist community in Berlin 145
12. 8. Stancetaking and local identity construction among German-American bilinguals in Berlin 167
13. Section 3: Commodification
14. 9. Lifestyles, milieu languages and the economy: the presence of Italian in the urban spaces of Berlin 195
15. 10. From authentication to distinction – consuming Arabic in Berlin’s gentrifying falafel economies 223
16. 11. Spanish in Berlin – potentials and perspectives in teaching and tourism 247
17. Section 4: Localities
18. 12. Linguistic landscapes and the making of an imagined community 279
19. 13. The linguistic landscapes of Kreuzberg and Neukölln: a comparative analysis of two neighborhoods 299
20. 14. Bazaarlingualism in Berlin’s Đồng Xuân Center: anthropological perspectives 329
21. 15. Moving stories: writing Berlin lives 347
22. Index 369