The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging : Perspectives from the Margins.

Intro -- The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Belonging through linguistic place-making in center-periphery constellations -- Linguistic marginalization -- Perceptions of peripheries -- Place-belongingness and politics of belonging -- Problematizing belonging -- Belonging through linguistic place-making -- The current volume -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part I. Interpersonal relations, place, and belonging -- Chapter 2. The boundaries of belonging: A commentary -- Belonging, group formation and language -- Constructing forms and degrees of groupness -- References -- Chapter 3. Language socialization and making sense of place: Language socialization and making sense of place -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language socialization -- 3. Place in children's lives -- 4. Bosavi in place -- 5. Bosavi: Taking the center and leaving the periphery -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4. Cité Duits: A polyethnic miners' variety -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical context: A circulation of labour -- 3. The immigrants in the Campine mines, including Eisden -- 4. Social and ethnic conditions for the emergence of Cité Duits in Eisden/Tuinwijk -- 5. The local population's attitudes towards the immigrants -- 6. Sociolinguistic conditions for the emergence of Cité Duits in Eisden -- 7. Some linguistic characteristics of Cité Duits -- 7.1 Phonological characteristics -- 7.2 (Morpho-)syntactic characteristics -- 7.3 Word order in the two-verb cluster -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5. Us, them and all the others: Analyzing belonging among Japanese immigrant women in The Netherlands -- Introduction -- Constructing belonging -- Ethnographic background -- 'Japan on the Amstel' -- The Club -- Participants -- Data and methods.

Language resources as means for indexing belonging -- Personal pronouns: From 'I' to 'we' -- Ethnic labels -- The use of standard and non-standard negation -- Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Part II. Parodic performances from the margins -- Chapter 6. Playing against peripheralization: A commentary -- Center-periphery as an organizing trope -- Techniques of contestation through play and humor -- References -- Chapter 7. The politics of place-making and belonging through language choice within center-periphery dynamics in Limburg, The Netherlands -- Introduction -- 1. Sinterklaas and carnival celebrations -- 1.1 The nationwide Sinterklaas celebration -- 1.2 The local carnival celebration -- 1.3 The prince announcement event at De Katers -- 2. Language ideology in practice during the prince announcement -- 3. Centralizing dialect carnival practices and peripheralizing Dutch Sinterklaas practices through the politics of place-making and belonging -- 3. Centralizing dialect carnival practices and peripheralizing Dutch Sinterklaas practices through the politics of place-making and belonging -- 3. Centralizing dialect carnival practices and peripheralizing Dutch Sinterklaas practices through the politics of place-making and belonging -- 3.1 The language discussion -- 3.2 In and out of place: Centralizing dialect, peripheralizing Dutch -- 3.3 Centralizing the carnival celebration at the expense of the Sinterklaas celebration -- 3.3 Centralizing the carnival celebration at the expense of the Sinterklaas celebration -- 4. Centralizing Maasniel and peripheralizing Roermond through the politics of place-making and belonging -- 4. Centralizing Maasniel and peripheralizing Roermond through the politics of place-making and belonging -- 4.1 Local center-periphery dynamics: Neel blief Neel!.

4.2 In and out of place: Centralizing Maasniel, peripheralizing Roermond -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription conventions -- References -- Media and interviews -- Chapter 8. Peripheral performances: The languagecultural practices of Dutch-Limburgian world star André Rieu -- Introduction -- Going global -- Performing the periphery -- The King and his Jester -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9. What's up in town: Place-making through the use of dialect in a Facebook chronicle of Leskovac (Southeast Serbia) -- Introduction -- Constructing peripherality -- Dialects and the urban quality of Southeastern Serbia -- Koe ima po grad: Dialect, humor, and authority based on authenticity -- Relocalization of dialect -- Creativity, authenticity and dialect use -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III. Agency in linguistic place-making -- Chapter 10. Language, place, agency: A commentary -- References -- Chapter 11. Place-making and dialect: A real time panel study from two Danish dialect areas -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Outline of the Danish speech community -- 3 Data -- 4. Quantitative analyses and results -- 5. Qualitative analyses of place-making -- 5.1 Historical factors in Southern Jutlandic place-making -- 5.2 Railway towns as local centres -- 5.3 Metalinguistic awareness -- 5.4 Naming one's place and dialect -- 5.5 Languagecultural resources -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgement -- Reference -- Appendix 1. -- Appendix 2. -- Appendix 3. -- Appendix 4. -- Chapter 12. Alternative place naming in the diverse margins of an ideologically mono-lingual society -- Introduction -- 1. Place as a sociolinguistic factor in the 21st century -- 2. Ideology of monolingualism -- 3. Alternative place-names and the construction of places -- 4. Alternative place-naming in hip-hop -- 5. Alternative place-naming in the diverse margins of Amager.

6. Conclusion: Managing the multilingual place in the context of a monolingual society -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 13. Yooperisms in tourism: Commodified enregistered features in Michigan's Upper Peninsula's linguistic landscape -- Introduction -- Centralized meanings in the periphery -- Methods -- The geographic landscape: Commodification of place and identity -- The sociolinguistic landscape: Commodification of dialect, identity, and place -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Mediography -- Index.

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