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From Los Angeles To Tokyo, Urban Sociolinguistics Is A Sociolinguistic Study Of Twelve Urban Settings Around The World. Building On William Labov's Famous New York Study, The Authors Demonstrate How Language Use In These Areas Is Changing Based On Belief Systems, Behavioural Norms, Day-to-day Rituals And Linguistic Practices. -- Introduction: Why Cities Matter For A Globalising Sociolinguistics -- Urbanisation And Linguistic Multitude -- Part I. The Global South -- Cairo: The Linguistic Dynamics Of A Multilingual City -- Mexico City: Diversity And Homogeneity -- Old Variables, New Meanings: Resignification Of Rural Speech Variants In São Paulo's Urban Ecology -- Dubai: Language In The Ethnocratic, Corporate And Mobile City -- Kohima: Language Variation And Change In A Small But Diverse City In India -- Part Ii. The Global North -- The Language Of London And Londoners -- Tokyo: Standardization, Ludic Language Use And Nascent Superdiversity -- The City As A Result Of Experience: Paris And Its Nearby Suburbs -- The Randstad Area In The Netherlands: Emergent And Fluid Identity-locality Production Through Language In Use -- Notes On The Language Ecology Of The City Of Angeles: Los Angeles, California, 1965-2015 -- Sydney's Intersecting Worlds Of Languages And Things -- Moscow: Diversity In Disguise -- Postscript: A Proposal For Street Use Surveys. Edited By Dick Smakman And Patrick Heinrich. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.