Urban Linguistics: Ideas and Anchor Points
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Beatrix Busse
Abstract
This introductory article attempts to outline the broad and interdisciplinary field of urban linguistics and explains the structure of this handbook. Drawing on Busse/Warnke (2015) we begin with a discussion of urbanity and how various disciplines conceptualize it.Thefocus isonlinguistic approaches, but the authors stress that, for linguistics, it is important to take an interdisciplinary stance to urbanity, urban spatial considerations, and semiotic meaning making in order to capture their complexities and to define urbanity as a network of values. We avoid perpetuating the questionable distinction between city and country and instead explore the linguistic particularities of a prototypical spatial - hence, urban - constellation.Wesuggest four dimensions of urban linguistics: variation, place-making, enregisterment, and mobility. On the basis of these theoretical reflections, we continue with outlining some methodological considerations and also illustrating selected research fields of urban linguistics.
Abstract
This introductory article attempts to outline the broad and interdisciplinary field of urban linguistics and explains the structure of this handbook. Drawing on Busse/Warnke (2015) we begin with a discussion of urbanity and how various disciplines conceptualize it.Thefocus isonlinguistic approaches, but the authors stress that, for linguistics, it is important to take an interdisciplinary stance to urbanity, urban spatial considerations, and semiotic meaning making in order to capture their complexities and to define urbanity as a network of values. We avoid perpetuating the questionable distinction between city and country and instead explore the linguistic particularities of a prototypical spatial - hence, urban - constellation.Wesuggest four dimensions of urban linguistics: variation, place-making, enregisterment, and mobility. On the basis of these theoretical reflections, we continue with outlining some methodological considerations and also illustrating selected research fields of urban linguistics.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Inhalt V
- Urban Linguistics: Ideas and Anchor Points 1
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I Bezugsfelder der urbanen Linguistik/ Fields of Reference of Urban Linguistics
- 1. Urban Variationist Sociolinguistics 33
- 2. ‘Rural’ and ‘Urban’ in Dialectology 52
- 3. Fundamentals of Urban Semiotics: Exemplified by Examples taken from the Chinese City 74
- 4. Experience as Moving Methodology: Notations on the Study of Urban Diversity 86
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II Kommunikationsraum Stadt/ City as Communicative Space
- 5. Urban Communities of Practice 117
- 6. Neue Dialekte im urbanen Europa 137
- 7. Urbanes Place-Making und Sprechen über Musik 165
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III Mobilität, Fluidität und Konstruktionen in städtischen Zeichenarealen/ Mobility, Fluidity and Constructions in Urban Semiotic Areas
- 8. Mobilities and Mobile Methods 191
- 9. Linguistic Landscapes 218
- 10. Semiotic Landscapes 245
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IV. Historizität der Stadt im Diskurs/ Historicity of the City in Discourse
- 11. Folk Linguistics and the Nostalgia of the Past City 271
- 12. Historical Discourse about Cities 292
- 13. Polyhistorizität im öffentlichen Raum 311
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V Experimente/ Experiments
- 14. Melancholy Objects Remixed: A Multimodal Counterstatement on Photography in Urban Linguistics 333
- 15. The HeiURBAN Database: A Brief and Unconventional Position Piece 394
- Index 415
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Inhalt V
- Urban Linguistics: Ideas and Anchor Points 1
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I Bezugsfelder der urbanen Linguistik/ Fields of Reference of Urban Linguistics
- 1. Urban Variationist Sociolinguistics 33
- 2. ‘Rural’ and ‘Urban’ in Dialectology 52
- 3. Fundamentals of Urban Semiotics: Exemplified by Examples taken from the Chinese City 74
- 4. Experience as Moving Methodology: Notations on the Study of Urban Diversity 86
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II Kommunikationsraum Stadt/ City as Communicative Space
- 5. Urban Communities of Practice 117
- 6. Neue Dialekte im urbanen Europa 137
- 7. Urbanes Place-Making und Sprechen über Musik 165
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III Mobilität, Fluidität und Konstruktionen in städtischen Zeichenarealen/ Mobility, Fluidity and Constructions in Urban Semiotic Areas
- 8. Mobilities and Mobile Methods 191
- 9. Linguistic Landscapes 218
- 10. Semiotic Landscapes 245
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IV. Historizität der Stadt im Diskurs/ Historicity of the City in Discourse
- 11. Folk Linguistics and the Nostalgia of the Past City 271
- 12. Historical Discourse about Cities 292
- 13. Polyhistorizität im öffentlichen Raum 311
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V Experimente/ Experiments
- 14. Melancholy Objects Remixed: A Multimodal Counterstatement on Photography in Urban Linguistics 333
- 15. The HeiURBAN Database: A Brief and Unconventional Position Piece 394
- Index 415