Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis: Berlin Lives

✍ Scribed by Patrick Stevenson (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 219
Series: Language and Globalization
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration. Berlin is a multicultural city in the heart of Europe, but what do we know about the number of languages spoken by its inhabitants and how they are used in everyday life? How do encounters with different languages impact on the experience of migration? And how do people use their experiences with language to shape their life stories?To investigate these questions, the author invites the reader to accompany him on a research expedition that leads to an apartment building in the highly diverse district of Neukölln. Its inhabitants come from different parts of the world and relate their experiences – their Berlin lives – in ways that reveal the complex and intricate relationships between language and migration.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction: Finding a Way In....Pages 1-18
Berlin: City of Migrations....Pages 19-50
Berlin: City of Multilingualisms....Pages 51-79
Multilingual Mietshaus: Language (Hi)stories at Mareschstraße 74....Pages 81-148
Back Matter....Pages 149-202

✦ Subjects

Sociolinguistics;Language Policy and Planning;Germanic Languages;Language History;Multilingualism;Language Change

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