The series contributes to the development of promising new approaches to the sociolinguistic, sociohistorical and linguistic anthropological study of social issues that centrally involve language. In particular, while still addressing the fundamental insights gleaned from variationist studies, foremost among which is the open-ended, heterogeneous nature of human language in all its varieties, it focuses on new, data-driven methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, in the social and cultural study of language that go beyond the more traditional concerns of sociolinguistics (for example, social networks, communities of practice, global population movements, the historical and present-day significance of demography for situations of language contact, the spatial dimensions of language, language and ideology, new dialect formation, historical sociolinguistics). The series includes monographs as well as edited volumes.

The series contributes to the development of promising new approaches to the sociolinguistic, sociohistorical and linguistic anthropological study of social issues that centrally involve language. In particular, while still addressing the fundamental insights gleaned from variationist studies, foremost among which is the open-ended, heterogeneous nature of human language in all its varieties, it focuses on new, data-driven methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, in the social and cultural study of language that go beyond the more traditional concerns of sociolinguistics (for example, social networks, communities of practice, global population movements, the historical and present-day significance of demography for situations of language contact, the spatial dimensions of language, language and ideology, new dialect formation, historical sociolinguistics). The series includes monographs as well as edited volumes.

Städtische Mehrsprachigkeit wird konkret erfahrbar in der mehrsprachigen Kommunikation ihrer Bewohner und Besucher. In diesem Band werden verschiedene Räume der Hafen- und Hansestadt Hamburg durch empirische Analysen als Orte urbaner Mehrsprachigkeit zugänglich gemacht. Die Beiträge thematisieren gesellschaftliche Mehrsprachigkeit unter den Aspekten der Institutionalität, Urbanität, Medialität und Individualität. Untersucht werden die sprachlichen Bedingungen des Zugangs zu Wohnraum, die gelebte Mehrsprachigkeit in ethnisch geprägten Senioreneinrichtungen, Supermärkten und Imbissbuden sowie die Hörbarkeit und Sichtbarkeit von Mehrsprachigkeit in einem zentralen Hamburger Stadtteil. Schließlich werden linguistische Konzepte für komparative Analysen gesellschaftlicher Mehrsprachigkeit zur Diskussion gestellt. Urban multilingualism is perceptible in practice in the multilingual communication of the inhabitants and visitors of a city. This volume makes different locations of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg accessible as places of urban multilingualism by empirical analyses. The articles broach the issue of social multilingualism under the aspects of institutions, urbaneness, mediality and individuality. The book researches the linguistic conditions of the access to living space, of the lived multilingualism in ethnically shaped retirement homes, supermarkets, and takeaways as well as the audibility and visibility of multilingualism in a central district of Hamburg. Finally linguistic concepts for comparative analyses of social multilingualism are brought up for discussion.