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This introductory article attempts to outline the broad and interdisciplinary field of urban linguistics and explains the structure of this handbook. Drawing on Busse/Warnke (2015) we begin with a discussion of urbanity and how various disciplines conceptualize it.Thefocus isonlinguistic approaches, but the authors stress that, for linguistics, it is important to take an interdisciplinary stance to urbanity, urban spatial considerations, and semiotic meaning making in order to capture their complexities and to define urbanity as a network of values. We avoid perpetuating the questionable distinction between city and country and instead explore the linguistic particularities of a prototypical spatial - hence, urban - constellation.Wesuggest four dimensions of urban linguistics: variation, place-making, enregisterment, and mobility. On the basis of these theoretical reflections, we continue with outlining some methodological considerations and also illustrating selected research fields of urban linguistics.
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