Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. The sociolinguistic economy of Berlin: cosmopolitan perspectives on language, diversity and social space -- Section 1: From past to present -- 2. Longue durée and social styles: Shifting indexicalities in the Berlin vernacular from the perspective of historical sociolinguistics -- 3. Berlinisch: variation and transformation processes of a city language -- 4. Learning to be German: immigration and language in Berlin -- Section 2: New identities -- 5. "Unter Freunden redet man anders": The register awareness of Kiezdeutsch speakers -- 6. Social capital and the production and perception of fine phonetic detail in Berlin -- 7. Language, economy, and the international artist community in Berlin -- 8. Stancetaking and local identity construction among German-American bilinguals in Berlin -- Section 3: Commodification -- 9. Lifestyles, milieu languages and the economy: the presence of Italian in the urban spaces of Berlin -- 10. From authentication to distinction - consuming Arabic in Berlin's gentrifying falafel economies -- 11. Spanish in Berlin - potentials and perspectives in teaching and tourism -- Section 4: Localities -- 12. Linguistic landscapes and the making of an imagined community -- 13. The linguistic landscapes of Kreuzberg and Neukölln: a comparative analysis of two neighborhoods -- 14. Bazaarlingualism in Berlin's Đồng Xuân Center: anthropological perspectives -- 15. Moving stories: writing Berlin lives -- Index