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This volume shows the relevance of the concepts of `place' and `belonging' for understanding the dynamics of identification through language. It also opens up a new terrain for sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological study, namely the margins. Rural, as well as urbanized areas that are seen as marginal or peripheral to places that are overtly recognized as mixed and hybridized have received relatively little sociolinguistic attention. Yet, people living in these supposedly less `spectacular' margins are not immune to the effects of globalization and rapid technological change. They too constantly form new ensembles from linguistic and cultural resources which they invest with novel, instable, often ambiguous meanings. This volume focusses on the purportedly unspectacular in order to achieve a full understanding of the relation between language, place and belonging. The contributors to this volume, therefore, focus on language practices analyzing them as dialectically related to political-economic processes and language ideologies.

• 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