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List of Figures

List of Contributors

1. Introducing city people and their communicative challenges

Part I. Innovative language uses

2. Marginal spaces in small urban areas: Evidence from a refugee centre in Southern Italy

3. Urban Language Practices Online? Multilingualism among German-Namibians in Computer-Mediated Communication

4. Motorcycle taxi drivers in Ngaoundere, Cameroon: Communication in a diffuse multilingual setting.

Part II. Competing identities

5. Language Choices and Language Identities of Finns in Japan

6. PC goes East-Central Europe: Enregistering politically correct language in Budapest university dormitories

7. The Haarlem Legend: The unpredictable formation of a national language norm

8. The sociolinguistic situation in Hradec Kralove, the best researched town in the Czech Republic

Part III. Multilingual strategies

9. The social linguistic soundscape and its influence on language choice in Stornoway

10. Bilingualism, ideology and identity: Change in the Finland-Swedish variety

11. Trasyanka as a dying phenomenon of urban speech in the city of Minsk

12. Language problems in interactions between locals and foreign tourists in the city of Prague: A language management study

Part IV. Linguistic Landscapes

13. ‘Non-identical twins’: monolingual bias and linguistic landscapes of the twin cities of Ivangorod/Narva

14. ‘Nothing personal, just business’: individuals as actors in changing monolingual linguistic landscapes in Vyborg, Russia

15. Behind the linguistic landscape: An interview-based study of business owners’ reasons for choosing business names in the German city of Mainz

Part V. Global processes and sound change

16. Rhotics Frequency In Beijing

17. Reacting to urbanization in Morocco: New language practices, old discourses?

18. The dynamic sociophonetics of Bulgarian /l/: The quiet transition from [l] to [?]

Index