Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. The sociolinguistic city 9
6. Identity and mobility in linguistic change across the lifespan 27
7. Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice 61
8. Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants 89
9. Language attitudes among mobile speakers 119
10. Urban-rural dimensions to variable -body/-one 141
11. From an indicator to a marker 159
12. New and old social meanings in urban and rural Sweden 179
13. Diminutives and their variation in spoken interaction in urban areas 203
14. Areal microvariation in German-speaking urban areas (Ruhr Area, Berlin, and Vienna) 227
15. Testing models of diffusion of morphosyntactic innovations in Twitter data 253
16. Index 279