This book explores research being carried out on linguistic practices among adolescents in multilingual urban Scandinavia. It analyses new linguistic practices, examines how these practices are perceived and discusses how their speakers construct their identities, giving an insight into the linguistic realities of young people in the 21st century.

This book presents, for the first time, an overarching, trans-Scandinavian, comprehensive and comparable account of linguistic developments and practices in late modern urban contact zones. The book aims to capture the multilingual realities of all young people in urban contexts, whether they are of migrant descent or not. Taking a multi-layered approach to linguistic practices, chapters in the book include structural and phonological analyses of new linguistic practices, examine how these practices and their practitioners are perceived, and discuss the sociolinguistic potentials of speakers when constructing, challenging and negotiating identities. The book also contains three short overview articles describing studies of multilingual practices in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The editors have aimed to make Scandinavian research on urban multilingualism accessible to scholars and students who don’t speak Scandinavian languages, and also to make a valuable contribution to the global study of multilingualism.

New Linguistic Practices in Multilingual Urban Scandinavia: An Introduction - Bente Ailin Svendsen and Pia Quist

1 Research on Language in Multilingual Urban Settings in Sweden - Sally Boyd

2 The Sociolinguistic Study of Youth and Multilingual Practices in Denmark: An Overview - Pia Quist

3 Linguistic Practices in Multilingual Urban Contexts in Norway: An Overview - Bente Ailin Svendsen

4 Extended Uses of ‘sån’ (such) among Adolescents in Multilingual Malmö, Sweden - Lena Ekberg

5 Subject-verb Order Variation in the Swedish of Young People in Multilingual Urban Areas - Natalia Ganuza

6 On Some Structural Aspects of Norwegian Spoken among Adolescents in Multilingual Settings in Oslo - Toril Opsahl and Ingvild Nistov

7 Pronunciation in Swedish Multiethnolect - Petra Bodén

8 Prosody in the Copenhagen Multiethnolect - Gert Foget Hansen and Nicolai Pharao

9 Transcultural and Transnational Identifications among Multilingual Adolescents in Sweden - Charlotte Haglund

10 The Use of Multi-ethnic Youth Language in Oslo - Finn Aarsæther

11 Polylingualism in the Steak House: Exploring Linguistic Practices in Late Modern Copenhagen - Janus Møller

12 Literary Use of Multi-ethnic Youth Language: Non-inversion in Swedish Fiction - Roger Källström

13 “Playing with Words as if it was a Rap Game”: Hip-hop Street Language in Oslo - Jan Sverre Knudsen

14 ‘Rinkeby Swedish’ in the Mind of the Beholder: Studying Listener Perceptions of Language Variation in Multilingual Stockholm - Ellen Bijvoet and Kari Fraurud

15 Linguistic Practice and Stereotypes among Copenhagen Adolescents - Marie Maegaard

16 One of my Kind? Language and Ethnicity among Danish Adolescents - Mette Vedsgaard Christensen