Cities of sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics has an intricate relationship with the city and with objects and queries pertaining to the specificity of urban language. Cities have not only acted as sites of sociolinguistic research but have simultaneously provided tools and frameworks that have proven useful in this research. T...

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Published inSocial semiotics Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 177 - 193
Main Author Karlander, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 01.01.2021
Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects
Cities
Epistemology
Epistemology of linguistics
Frame analysis
Heteroglossia
Heuristic
landscape
Language
linguistic variation
Sociolinguistics
Urban areas
urban language
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Summary:Sociolinguistics has an intricate relationship with the city and with objects and queries pertaining to the specificity of urban language. Cities have not only acted as sites of sociolinguistic research but have simultaneously provided tools and frameworks that have proven useful in this research. This heuristic mode has subsumed the object of language under a specific body of ideas, facts and arguments. Seen in an epistemological perspective, the city has offered delineations and specifications of language. The figure of the city appears to have created a logical reduction of the ways in which language can be grasped and investigated, framing it as a localised, social and formally heterogeneous - yet moored and well-defined - object. At the same, this reduction has opened up different possibilities for representing and analysing urban space and language. The paper discusses this dynamic.
ISSN:1035-0330
1470-1219
DOI:10.1080/10350330.2020.1810550