Sociolinguistic variation among multilingual youth: comparing Swedish cities and Toronto

Boyd, Sally; Hoffman, Michol F.; Walker, James A.

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“…Its aim was to describe, analyze, and compare ways of speaking Swedish and multilingual youth's identity work as it appeared among adolescents in several multilingual areas in the major cities of Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It also aimed to provide multidimensional perspectives on the language practices of young people in contemporary multilingual urban settings in Sweden (e.g., Almér, ; Boyd, ; Boyd, Walker, & Hoffman, ; Ekberg, Opsahl, & Wiese, ; Ganuza, ). Participants in the SUF project were both monolingual Swedes and bilingual immigrant youth.…”

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Language and identity practices among multilingual Western European youths

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Since the 1980s, an increasing number of studies on youth languages in Europe has appeared. In this paper, a selection of the literature on linguistic practices and identity work by young people in multilingual and multiethnic urban areas in Western Europe is reviewed and discussed. Practices in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden are focused on. From a bird's eye view, the literature on linguistic practices of urban youth in other West‐ and South‐European countries is reviewed as well. After a sketch of the context in which the first studies on multilingual and multiethnic youth languages appeared, research on youth languages in the five focus countries is presented, followed by a comparison of linguistic characteristics. Specific features from the levels of grammar, lexicon, and pronunciation are used to index social belonging and identity.

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Language and identity practices among multilingual Western European youths

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“…Nuances within such social categories can fruitfully be studied from perspectives other than CofP, such as social‐psychological questionnaires administered as part of the data collection (e.g. Boyd, Hoffman and Walker ; Hoffman and Walker ). Fox's social‐network analysis, based on detailed historical and ethnographic research, already provides a good explanation for the patterns of behaviour observed in the friendship groups.…”

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Book ReviewsSusanFox. The New Cockney: New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech in the Traditional East End of London. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. xv + 247 pp. Hb (9780230203556) US$90.00.

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A tale of two cities (and one vowel): Sociolinguistic variation in Swedish

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Previous studies of language contact in multilingual urban neighborhoods in Europe claim the emergence of new varieties spoken by immigrant-background youth. This paper examines the sociolinguistic conditioning of variation in allophones of Swedish /ε:/ of young people of immigrant and nonimmigrant background in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Although speaker background and sex condition the variation, their effects differ in each city. In Stockholm there are no significant social differences and the allophonic difference appears to have been neutralized. Gothenburg speakers are divided into three groups, based on speaker origin and sex, each of which orients toward different norms. Our conclusions appeal to dialectal diffusion and the desire to mark ethnic identity in a diverse sociolinguistic context. These results demonstrate that not only language contact but also dialect change should be considered together when investigating language variation in modern-day cities.

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Sociolinguistic variation among multilingual youth: comparing Swedish cities and Toronto

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Language and identity practices among multilingual Western European youths

Language and identity practices among multilingual Western European youths

Book ReviewsSusanFox. The New Cockney: New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech in the Traditional East End of London. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. xv + 247 pp. Hb (9780230203556) US$90.00.

A tale of two cities (and one vowel): Sociolinguistic variation in Swedish

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