Language, Space and Identity in Migration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Grit Liebscher, Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain

   Pages 1-13

3. Theorizing Language, Space, and Identity

   • Grit Liebscher, Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain

   Pages 14-34

4. Perceptions of the Linguascape

   • Grit Liebscher, Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain

   Pages 35-88

5. Multiple Languages as Resources

   • Grit Liebscher, Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain

   Pages 89-130

6. Forms of Address

   • Grit Liebscher, Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain

   Pages 131-175

7. Non-Language Resources

   • Grit Liebscher, Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain

   Pages 176-217

8. The Role of Historicity

   • Grit Liebscher, Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain

   Pages 218-254

9. Language, Space, and Identity in Migration: from the Local to the Global

   • Grit Liebscher, Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain

   Pages 255-269

10. Back Matter

    Pages 270-288

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This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration context, using data from a German urban immigrant community in Canada. Through this transcontinental perspective, the book makes a new contribution to the literature on both language and identity and language and globalization.

• Migration
• Globalization
• language
• German
• identity
• migration
• literary diction

• University of Waterloo, Canada

  Grit Liebscher

• University of Alberta, Canada

  Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain

Grit Liebscher is Associate Professor of German at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research in interactional sociolinguistics and conversation analysis focuses on first language use in the second language classroom, language attitudes, post-unification communication among East and West Germans, and intercultural communication. Her previous publications include the co-edited book German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration and Loss.

Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Canada. Alongside her work in language, migration and identity in both Germany and German-speaking Canada, her research includes code-switching in the classroom, language attitudes, and the differential use of English in online communication among German and Dutch groups of young people. Her previous publications include First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Learning (co-edited).

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