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Published 2011.
In recent years, ethnic styles of young people with a migrant background have become an important research object in sociolinguistics. It has become clear that similar ways of speaking have been developed by young ...
Published 2011.
In recent years, ethnic styles of young people with a migrant background have become an important research object in sociolinguistics. It has become clear that similar ways of speaking have been developed by young people in many cities all over Europe. All the papers in the present volume focus on the description of the linguistic characteristics that constitute the non-standard structures of ethnic ways of speaking. The book presents information about the recent development of young migrants' language that displays specific lexical, syntactic and prosodic patterns that have not been observed in standard or regionalized spoken varieties of the national languages. It brings together various research designs which explore the phenomenon from different research perspectives. More specifically, the volume concentrates on three approaches to linguistic variation: correlational methodology of sociolinguistic research, conversation analytical and interactional-linguistic methodology, and an ethnographic perspective on language use and the constitution of social identities and social relations.
