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5. Urban Communities of Practice

  • Sam Kirkham
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Handbuch Sprache im urbanen Raum Handbook of Language in Urban Space
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Abstract

This chapter discusses research on communities of practice in urban spaces, with a particular focus on language variation and change in multiethnic communities in Europe. I outline research showing that the community of practice approach is a valuable tool for analysing sociolinguistic dynamics in contemporary urban societies, but also suggest that it can be augmented with other complementary approaches in better understanding the social meanings of linguistic variation. Section 1 provides a brief overview of the community of practice approach and its theoretical basis. Section 2 covers research on urban communities of practice in the study of language variation and change. Section 3 specifically focuses on multiethnic urban communities of practice. Section 4 briefly discusses alternatives to the community of practice approach, as well as some complementary perspectives, whilst Section 5 concludes with some suggestions for future research.

Abstract

This chapter discusses research on communities of practice in urban spaces, with a particular focus on language variation and change in multiethnic communities in Europe. I outline research showing that the community of practice approach is a valuable tool for analysing sociolinguistic dynamics in contemporary urban societies, but also suggest that it can be augmented with other complementary approaches in better understanding the social meanings of linguistic variation. Section 1 provides a brief overview of the community of practice approach and its theoretical basis. Section 2 covers research on urban communities of practice in the study of language variation and change. Section 3 specifically focuses on multiethnic urban communities of practice. Section 4 briefly discusses alternatives to the community of practice approach, as well as some complementary perspectives, whilst Section 5 concludes with some suggestions for future research.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Inhalt V
  3. Urban Linguistics: Ideas and Anchor Points 1
  4. I Bezugsfelder der urbanen Linguistik/ Fields of Reference of Urban Linguistics
  5. 1. Urban Variationist Sociolinguistics 33
  6. 2. ‘Rural’ and ‘Urban’ in Dialectology 52
  7. 3. Fundamentals of Urban Semiotics: Exemplified by Examples taken from the Chinese City 74
  8. 4. Experience as Moving Methodology: Notations on the Study of Urban Diversity 86
  9. II Kommunikationsraum Stadt/ City as Communicative Space
  10. 5. Urban Communities of Practice 117
  11. 6. Neue Dialekte im urbanen Europa 137
  12. 7. Urbanes Place-Making und Sprechen über Musik 165
  13. III Mobilität, Fluidität und Konstruktionen in städtischen Zeichenarealen/ Mobility, Fluidity and Constructions in Urban Semiotic Areas
  14. 8. Mobilities and Mobile Methods 191
  15. 9. Linguistic Landscapes 218
  16. 10. Semiotic Landscapes 245
  17. IV. Historizität der Stadt im Diskurs/ Historicity of the City in Discourse
  18. 11. Folk Linguistics and the Nostalgia of the Past City 271
  19. 12. Historical Discourse about Cities 292
  20. 13. Polyhistorizität im öffentlichen Raum 311
  21. V Experimente/ Experiments
  22. 14. Melancholy Objects Remixed: A Multimodal Counterstatement on Photography in Urban Linguistics 333
  23. 15. The HeiURBAN Database: A Brief and Unconventional Position Piece 394
  24. Index 415
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110296334-006

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Inhalt V
  3. Urban Linguistics: Ideas and Anchor Points 1
  4. I Bezugsfelder der urbanen Linguistik/ Fields of Reference of Urban Linguistics
  5. 1. Urban Variationist Sociolinguistics 33
  6. 2. ‘Rural’ and ‘Urban’ in Dialectology 52
  7. 3. Fundamentals of Urban Semiotics: Exemplified by Examples taken from the Chinese City 74
  8. 4. Experience as Moving Methodology: Notations on the Study of Urban Diversity 86
  9. II Kommunikationsraum Stadt/ City as Communicative Space
  10. 5. Urban Communities of Practice 117
  11. 6. Neue Dialekte im urbanen Europa 137
  12. 7. Urbanes Place-Making und Sprechen über Musik 165
  13. III Mobilität, Fluidität und Konstruktionen in städtischen Zeichenarealen/ Mobility, Fluidity and Constructions in Urban Semiotic Areas
  14. 8. Mobilities and Mobile Methods 191
  15. 9. Linguistic Landscapes 218
  16. 10. Semiotic Landscapes 245
  17. IV. Historizität der Stadt im Diskurs/ Historicity of the City in Discourse
  18. 11. Folk Linguistics and the Nostalgia of the Past City 271
  19. 12. Historical Discourse about Cities 292
  20. 13. Polyhistorizität im öffentlichen Raum 311
  21. V Experimente/ Experiments
  22. 14. Melancholy Objects Remixed: A Multimodal Counterstatement on Photography in Urban Linguistics 333
  23. 15. The HeiURBAN Database: A Brief and Unconventional Position Piece 394
  24. Index 415
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