Abstract

The approach of »communicative social styles« in urban sociolinguistics has turned out to be fruitful in analyzing the language choice of multilingual subjects, in order to identify their attitudes towards languages and the groups of speakers and cultures with which/whom they are in contact, including the relations between migrants’ homelands and the host country in urban or suburban quarters. One major interest is the investigation of code switching phenomena in both everyday communication and aesthetic cultural productions, such as HipHop. These phenomena show strategies related to the affirmation of interstitial identities.

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