Ethnolects, multiethnolects and urban contact dialects: Looking forward, looking back, looking around

Britain, David (2022). Ethnolects, multiethnolects and urban contact dialects: Looking forward, looking back, looking around. In: Kerswill, Paul; Wiese, Heike (eds.) Urban contact dialects and language change: Insights from the global North and South (pp. 325-336). London: Routledge

Full text not available from this repository.

The building of large housing developments for, especially, immigrant working class families in banlieues well beyond the heart of the city coupled with poor public transportation infrastructure to the centre have left many working class communities rather isolated. The investigations of the emergence of multiethnolects and other ethnic contact varieties in northern European cities over the past 20 years represent an important, fascinating and very welcome innovation in variationist sociolinguistics. The literature tends to contrast ethnolects with multiethnolects, the former being a variety associated with one particular ethnic group in a community and the latter being a variety that transcends individual ethnic groups and is adopted by speakers from some or several different ethnic groups. A focus on intersectionality also highlights the need for research on elite upper-middle class immigrants, let’s say, in Geneva or Brussels or Paris, the possibility of cosmopolitan expatriate multiethnolects, such as those emerging in the International Schools frequented by the children of the jet-set.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures 06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS) 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures > Modern English Linguistics
UniBE Contributor:	Britain, David
Subjects:	400 Language 400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages
ISBN:	9781138596092
Publisher:	Routledge
Language:	English
Submitter:	Federico Erba
Date Deposited:	01 Sep 2022 16:03
Last Modified:	14 Mar 2024 12:31
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/172179