The Randstad area in The Netherlands: Emergent and fluid identity-locality production through language in use

TY - CHAP

T1 - The Randstad area in The Netherlands

T2 - Emergent and fluid identity-locality production through language in use

AU - Cornips, L.

AU - de Rooij, V.

AU - Smakman, Dick

PY - 2017/10/1

Y1 - 2017/10/1

N2 - This chapter first introduces the physical, infrastructural and population characteristics of the Randstad in some detail, which explain the specific language variation situation in this area and the challenges it poses in the second part. The final part of the chapter provides specific illustration of urban language contact situation – from the cities of Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Amsterdam – which demonstrate the daily language use in the big cities within the region, the mechanisms of identity expression through language, and the coming to existence of language variation in neighbourhoods where speakers with different social orientations meet, interact, and assert themselves.

AB - This chapter first introduces the physical, infrastructural and population characteristics of the Randstad in some detail, which explain the specific language variation situation in this area and the challenges it poses in the second part. The final part of the chapter provides specific illustration of urban language contact situation – from the cities of Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Amsterdam – which demonstrate the daily language use in the big cities within the region, the mechanisms of identity expression through language, and the coming to existence of language variation in neighbourhoods where speakers with different social orientations meet, interact, and assert themselves.

M3 - Chapter

SP - 162

BT - Urban Sociolinguistics

A2 - Smakman, Dick

A2 - Heine, Patrick

PB - Routledge

CY - London

ER -