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  • Chapter 30 - Urban Speech Styles of Germanic Languages

  • from Part V - Language Contact and Nonstandard Varieties
  • Edited by Michael T. Putnam, Pennsylvania State University, B. Richard Page, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics
    Published online:
    31 March 2020
    Print publication:
    16 April 2020, pp 714-735

  • Summary

    This chapter gives an overview of contemporary urban speech styles in Northern European cities as they have been described by sociolinguists throughout Scandinavian and Northern European countries. By “contemporary urban speech styles” we refer to new contact-induced speech styles or varieties that have emerged among young people in multilingual urban neighborhoods. The chapter outlines linguistic parallels that have been documented across Scandinavia in particular, as well as in Northern Europe, focusing on, first, structural findings such as variation of the verb second constraint, variation of grammatical gender, variation in pronunciation as well as lexical features; second, the chapter gives an account of studies on social identities connected to, perceptions of and media constructions of contemporary urban speech styles.