Urban Sociolinguistics The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience

"A first-rate collection of empirically based, theoretically informed essays on sociolinguistic diversity in the major cities of the world. In merging foundational urban sociolinguistics with more recent developments that stress superdiverse fluidities, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sophisticated and important advance in the field." - Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

"A genuinely novel approach for modern sociolinguistics. More than half the world's population now lives in cities - this radical change poses a number of questions for sociolinguists. Urban Sociolinguistics holds out a multitude of possibilities for researchers at any stage in their career." - Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Wellington, New Zealand.

"This volume is beneficial to both theoretical and applied linguists due to the versatility of the approaches used when studying languages in urban ecologies." - Teresa Wai See Ong, LINGUIST List, January 2020