Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change

Introduction, by Paul Kerswill and Heike Wiese

PART A: MULTILINGUAL SOCIETAL HABITUS

Chapter 1: Cameroon: Camfranglais, by Roland Kiessling

Chapter 2: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lingala ya Bayankee/Yanke, by Nico Nassenstein

Chapter 3: Senegal: Urban Wolof then and now, by Fiona Mc Laughlin

Chapter 4: South Africa: Tsotsitaal and urban vernacular forms of South African languages, by Ellen Hurst-Harosh

Chapter 5: Ghana: Ghanaian Student Pidgin English, by Dorothy Pokua Agyepong and Nana Aba Appiah Amfo

Chapter 6: Kenya: Sheng and Engsh, by Maarten Mous and Sandra Barasa

Chapter 7: Finland: Old Helsinki slang, by Heini Lehtonen and Heikki Paunonen

Commentaries:

Chapter 8: Baby steps in decolonising linguistics: Urban language research, by Miriam Meyerhoff

Chapter 9: Variation, complexity and the richness of urban contact dialects, by Joseph Salmons

PART B: MONOLINGUAL SOCIETAL HABITUS

Chapter 10: Tanzania: Lugha ya Mitaani, by Uta Reuster-Jahn and Roland Kiessling

Chapter 11: Denmark: Danish urban contact dialects, by Pia Quist

Chapter 12: Norway: Contemporary urban speech styles, by Bente A. Svendsen

Chapter 13: The Netherlands: Urban contact dialects, by Frans Hinskens, Khalid Mourigh and Pieter Muysken

Chapter 14: Sweden: Suburban Swedish, by Johan Gross and Sally Boyd

Chapter 15: France: Youth vernaculars in Paris and surroundings, by Francoise Gadet

Chapter 16: United Kingdom: Multicultural London English, by Paul Kerswill

Chapter 17: Germany: Kiezdeutsch, by Yazguel Simsek and Heike Wiese

Commentaries:

Chapter 18: Ethnolects, multiethnolects and urban contact dialects: Looking forward, looking back, looking around, by David Britain

Chapter 19: Migrants and urban contact sociolinguistics in Africa and Europe, by Rajend Mesthrie