Karen V. Beaman
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The city as a complex socio-cultural structure plays a central role, economically, administratively as well as culturally. Factors such as higher population density, a more expansive infrastructure, and larger social and cultural diversity compared to rural areas have a substantial impact on urban society and urban communication.Focusing on the latter, the contributions to this volume discuss the characteristics and dynamics of urban language use,...
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 10th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), which was organized by the Fryske Akademy and held in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert (the Netherlands) in June 2019. The editors have selected thirteen papers on a wide range of language varieties, geographically ranging from Dutch-Frisian contact varieties in Leeuwarden to English in Sydney, Australia. The selection includes traditional...