This book represents the diverse research being carried out on linguistic practices among adolescents in multilingual urban Scandinavia. With chapters analysing new linguistic practices, examining how these practices are perceived and discussing how their speakers construct their identities, the book gives an insight into the linguistic realities of young people in the 21st century
Multilingual Urban Scandinavia : New Linguistic Practices
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This book represents the diverse research being carried out on linguistic practices among adolescents in multilingual urban Scandinavia. With chapters analysing new linguistic practices, examining how these practices are perceived and discussing how their speakers construct their identities, the book gives an insight into the linguistic realities of young people in the 21st century
The book contains a collection of studies of the linguistic landscape - the use of written language on signs in the public sphere - in 5 different societies: Israel, Japan, Thailand, the Netherlands...
Peter Backhaus is research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo. His research interests include sociolinguistics, semiotics, writing, and Japanese linguistics. He has published...